LEADER 04582nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910786995103321 005 20230907215556.0 010 $a0-231-51289-9 024 7 $a10.7312/brec14394 035 $a(CKB)2670000000358613 035 $a(EBL)1181624 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000889723 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11478769 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000889723 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10882524 035 $a(PQKB)11384551 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000340706 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1181624 035 $a(DE-B1597)458679 035 $a(OCoLC)979586432 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231512893 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1181624 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10715339 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL562750 035 $a(OCoLC)845254273 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000358613 100 $a20130111d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAdventures of the symbolic$b[electronic resource] $epost-Marxism and radical democracy /$fWarren Breckman 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (384 p.) 225 0 $aColumbia Studies in political thought/political history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14395-8 311 $a0-231-14394-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tForeword /$rHoward, Dick --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Post-Marxism and the Symbolic Turn --$t1. The Symbolic Dimension and the Politics of Young Hegelianism --$t2. The Fate of the Symbolic from Romantic Socialism to a Marxism in extremis --$t3. From the Symbolic Turn to the Social Imaginary. Castoriadis's Project of Autonomy --$t4. Democracy Between Disenchantment and Political Theology. French Post-Marxism and the Return of Religion --$t6. The Post-Marx of the Letter. Laclau and Mouffe Between Postmodern Melancholy and Post-Marxist Mourning --$t7. Of Empty Places. ?i?ek and Laclau; or, The end of the affair --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aMarxism's collapse in the twentieth century profoundly altered the style and substance of Western European radical thought. To build a more robust form of democratic theory and action, prominent theorists moved to reject revolution, abandon class for more fragmented models of social action, and elevate the political over the social. Acknowledging the constructedness of society and politics, they chose the "symbolic" as a concept powerful enough to reinvent leftist thought outside a Marxist framework. Following Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Adventures of the Dialectic, which reassessed philosophical Marxism at mid century, Warren Breckman critically revisits these thrilling experiments in the aftermath of Marxism.The post-Marxist idea of the symbolic is dynamic and complex, uncannily echoing the early German Romantics, who first advanced a modern conception of symbolism and the symbolic. Hegel and Marx denounced the Romantics for their otherworldly and nebulous posture, yet post-Marxist thinkers appreciated the rich potential of the ambiguities and paradoxes the Romantics first recognized. Mapping different ideas of the symbolic among contemporary thinkers, Breckman traces a fascinating reflection of Romantic themes and resonances, and he explores in depth the effort to reconcile a radical and democratic political agenda with a politics that does not privilege materialist understandings of the social. Engaging with the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort, Marcel Gauchet, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, and Slavoj Žižek, Breckman uniquely situates these important theorists within two hundred years of European thought and extends their profound relevance to today's political activism. 410 0$aColumbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History 606 $aDemocracy 606 $aPhilosophy, Marxist 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 606 $aRadicalism 606 $aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy 615 0$aDemocracy. 615 0$aPhilosophy, Marxist. 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aRadicalism. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy. 676 $a321.8 700 $aBreckman$b Warren$f1963-$01474791 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786995103321 996 $aAdventures of the symbolic$93688657 997 $aUNINA