LEADER 03000oam 2200565I 450 001 9910159451203321 005 20240505184703.0 010 $a1-315-71484-1 010 $a1-317-50221-3 010 $a1-317-50222-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315714844 035 $a(CKB)3710000001018884 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4786879 035 $a(OCoLC)970603270 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001018884 100 $a20180706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aNegativity and democracy $eMarxism and the critical theory tradition /$fVasilis Grollios 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York, N.Y. :$cRoutledge,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (278 pages) $cillustrations, tables 225 1 $aRoutledge Advances in Democratic Theory ;$v6 311 $a1-138-88646-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $a1. Marx and Engels's critique of democracy : the materialist character of their concept of autonomy -- 2. Dialectics and the transition to socialism in late F. Engels's philosophy of history : freeing Marx from the "withering away of the state" theory -- 3. Max Horkheimer's dialectics rehabilitated : how Horkheimer's "open marxism" cracks capitalism -- 4. Dialectics and democracy in Georg Lukacs' Marxism -- 5. False social totality and the ineffable integrity in T. Adorno's negative dialectics : the critical theorist and the challenges of the twenty-first century -- 6. Determinate negation of the one-dimensional society : how Herbert Marcuse's great refusal cracks capitalism -- 7. Finding hope in the nihilism of bourgeois life : Ernst Bloch's open Marxism reconsidered -- 8. The descendants of negative dialectics : dialectics and democracy in open Marxism. 330 $aExplores the practical relevance of these notions for a contemporary democratic theory. Vasilis Grollios offers a unique overview of the key concepts of totality, negativity, fetishization, contradiction, mystification, identity thinking, dialectics and corporeal materialism as they have been employed by the major thinkers of the critical theory tradition - Marx, Engels, Horkheimer, Lukacs, Adorno, Marcuse, E. Bloch and J. Holloway. 410 0$aRoutledge advances in democratic theory ;$v6. 606 $aDemocracy$xPhilosophy 606 $aCapitalism$xPhilosophy 606 $aMarxist criticism 606 $aCritical theory 615 0$aDemocracy$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aCapitalism$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aMarxist criticism. 615 0$aCritical theory. 676 $a320.53/2 676 $a320.532 700 $aGrollios$b Vasilis.$0939961 712 02$aCentre for the Study of Democracy. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910159451203321 996 $aNegativity and democracy$92119411 997 $aUNINA