LEADER 04458nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910817096803321 005 20230612225006.0 010 $a1-282-75229-4 010 $a9786612752292 010 $a1-4008-2177-0 010 $a1-4008-1334-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821778 035 $a(CKB)111056486502478 035 $a(EBL)581654 035 $a(OCoLC)700688687 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000219980 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11202055 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000219980 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10135648 035 $a(PQKB)10305678 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581654 035 $a(OCoLC)70755463 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36022 035 $a(DE-B1597)446123 035 $a(OCoLC)979623609 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821778 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581654 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031924 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275229 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486502478 100 $a19950105d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe permanence of the political $ea democratic critique of the radical impulse to transcend politics /$fJoseph M. Schwartz 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, N.J. :$cPrinceton University Press,$d1995. 215 $a1 online resource (349 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-03357-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [311]-324) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tCHAPTER 1. Introduction: The Radical Impulse to Transcend Politics --$tCHAPTER 2. The Threat of Interests to the General Will: Rousseau's Critique of Particularism --$tCHAPTER 3. The Hegelian State: Mediating Away the Political --$tCHAPTER 4. The Origins of Marx's Hostility to Politics: The Devaluation of Rights and Justice --$tCHAPTER 5. Lenin (and Marx) on the Sciences of Consciousness and Production: The Abolition of Political Judgment --$tCHAPTER 6. Hannah Arendt's Politics of "Action": The Elusive Search for Political Substance --$tCHAPTER 7. Conclusion: Redressing the Radical Tradition's Antipolitical Legacy-Toward a Radical Democratic Pluralist Politics --$tNOTES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aWhy have radical political theorists, whose thinking inspired mass movements for democracy, been so suspicious of political plurality? According to Joseph Schwartz, their doubts were involved with an effort to transcend politics. Mistakenly equating all social difference with the harmful way in which particular interests dominated marketplace societies, radical thinkers sought a comprehensive set of "true human interests" that would completely abolish political strife. In extensive analyses of Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Lenin, and Arendt, Schwartz seeks to mediate the radical critique of democratic capitalist societies with the concern for pluralism evidenced in both liberal and postmodern thought. He thus escapes the authoritarian potential of the radical position, while appropriating its more democratic implications. In Schwartz's view, a reconstructed radical democratic theory of politics must sustain liberalism's defense of individual rights and social pluralism, while redressing the liberal failure to question structural inequalities. In proposing such a theory, he criticizes communitarianism for its premodern longing for a monolithic, virtuous society, and challenges the "politics of difference" for its failure to question the undemocratic terrain of power on which "difference" is constructed. In conclusion, he maintains that an equitable distribution of power and resources among social groups necessitates not the transcendence of politics but its democratic expansion. 606 $aSocialism 606 $aSocial conflict 606 $aSocial justice 606 $aDemocracy 606 $aCultural pluralism 606 $aRadicalism 615 0$aSocialism. 615 0$aSocial conflict. 615 0$aSocial justice. 615 0$aDemocracy. 615 0$aCultural pluralism. 615 0$aRadicalism. 676 $a335 700 $aSchwartz$b Joseph M.$f1954-$01619231 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817096803321 996 $aThe permanence of the political$93951366 997 $aUNINA