LEADER 03915nam 22005774a 450 001 9910456187603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8047-8027-7 010 $a0-585-45783-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804780278 035 $a(CKB)111087027878798 035 $a(OCoLC)614674225 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10042856 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000190789 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11215654 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000190789 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10181269 035 $a(PQKB)10648201 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3037433 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3037433 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10042856 035 $a(OCoLC)923699413 035 $a(DE-B1597)582090 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804780278 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027878798 100 $a20010713d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLeaving Marxism$b[electronic resource] $estudies in the dissolution of an ideology /$fStanley Pierson 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (244 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8047-4404-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-227) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tPART I Anticipations -- $tCHAPTER 1 The Nietzschean Presence in the European Socialist Movements -- $tPART II Three Case Studies -- $tCHAPTER 2 Henri De Man -- $tCHAPTER 3 Max Horkheimer -- $tCHAPTER 4 Leszek Kolakowski -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aThe collapse of Marxism as a compelling ideology and political force is one of the most important developments in the history of twentieth-century Europe. This book seeks to understand the failure of Marxism by viewing it up close, in the experiences of three important Marxist intellectuals?the Belgian Henri De Man, the German Max Horkheimer, and the Pole Leszek Kolakowski?each of whom embraced Marxism early in life and later decisively rejected it. The author focuses on the processes through which these three figures lost their faith in Marxism, thereby providing the framework for a more general account of modern ideological disenchantment. An introductory chapter surveys an earlier stage of that disenchantment by examining the appeal of Nietzsche and his concept of the superman to Marxist intellectuals in each of the major European socialist movements, focusing particularly on those who have lost confidence in the redemptive historical role of the proletariat. In studying the ideological trajectory of De Man, Horkheimer, and Kolakowski, the author identifies the common dilemmas they faced in their efforts to advance the Marxist cause. Those dilemmas arose in large part out of the clash between their bourgeois ethical sensibilities and the materialistic and deterministic outlook of orthodox Marxism. This clash provides a connecting link between the three generations of Marxist intellectuals dealt with in the study. The author also discusses the aftermath of these three versions of ideological disenchantment?the attempts of each of these intellectuals to reconstruct a view of the world following the dissolution of his Marxist faith. The book concludes by placing Marxism in a broad historical context, and raises questions about its place?and that of the utopian imagination in general?within Western civilization. 606 $aCommunism and intellectuals$vCase studies 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCommunism and intellectuals 676 $a335.4/092/2 700 $aPierson$b Stanley$f1925-$01051576 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456187603321 996 $aLeaving Marxism$92482188 997 $aUNINA