Adventures of the Symbolic : : Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy /

Adventures of the Symbolic : : Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy / / Warren Breckman.

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Marxism's collapse in the twentieth century profoundly altered the style and substance of Western European radical thought. To build a more robust form of democratic theory and action, prominent theorists moved to reject revolution, abandon class for more fragmented models of social action, and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Breckman, Warren,
MitwirkendeR:
Howard, Dick,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Post-Marxism and the Symbolic Turn
  • 1. The Symbolic Dimension and the Politics of Young Hegelianism
  • 2. The Fate of the Symbolic from Romantic Socialism to a Marxism in extremis
  • 3. From the Symbolic Turn to the Social Imaginary. Castoriadis's Project of Autonomy
  • 4. Democracy Between Disenchantment and Political Theology. French Post-Marxism and the Return of Religion
  • 6. The Post-Marx of the Letter. Laclau and Mouffe Between Postmodern Melancholy and Post-Marxist Mourning
  • 7. Of Empty Places. Žižek and Laclau; or, The end of the affair
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index

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