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Autore: | Grollios Vasilis. |
Titolo: | Negativity and democracy : Marxism and the critical theory tradition / / Vasilis Grollios |
Pubblicazione: | New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina: | 320.53/2 |
320.532 | |
Soggetto topico: | Democracy - Philosophy |
Capitalism - Philosophy | |
Marxist criticism | |
Critical theory | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 1. 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Explores 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Negativity and democracy |
ISBN: | 1-315-71484-1 |
1-317-50221-3 | |
1-317-50222-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910159451203321 |
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