The specter of democracy /

Main Author: Howard, Dick, 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, c2002.
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245 1 4 |a The specter of democracy /  |c Dick Howard. 
260 1 4 |a New York, NY :  |b Columbia University Press,  |c c2002. 
300 1 4 |a xvii, 353 p. ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 1 4 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-333) and index. 
505 1 4 |a Marxism in the postcommunist world -- Can French intellectuals escape Marxism? -- The Frankfurt School and the transformation of critical theory into cultural theory -- Habermas's reorientation of critical theory toward democratic theory -- The anticommunist Marxism of 'Socialisme ou Barbarie' -- Claude Lefort's passage from revolutionary theory to political theory -- From Marx to Castoriadis, and from Castoriadis to us -- From the critique of totalitarianism to the politics of democracy -- The burden of French history -- Intersecting trajectories of republicanism in France and the United States -- Reading U.S. history as political -- Fundamentalism and the American exception -- Philosophy by other means? 
600 1 4 |a Marx, Karl,  |d 1818-1883  |x Political and social views. 
650 1 4 |a Democracy 
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