The specter of democracy /

Main Author: Howard, Dick, 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, c2002.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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?