From neo-Marxism to democratic theory : essays on the critical theory of Soviet-type societies
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From neo-Marxism to democratic theory : essays on the critical theory of Soviet-type societies
M.E. Sharpe, c1993
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The essays in this volume trace an intellectual odyssey, a search for a genuinely critical theory. The book begins with the question of why the Frankfurt School as well as other neo-Marxist and post-Marxist analysts, both in the West and in dissident circles in the East, failed to produce a critical theory of Soviet socialism or to establish a dynamic relationship with contemporary social movements. As the political struggle in Eastern Europe intensified, the author of this book disengaged from his own efforts to reconstruct a critical Marxism. Instead, he attempts a reconstruction of democratic theory based on civil society rather than class categories, and with a critical relevance not only to the transition from state socialism but more generally to the universal goal of emancipation.
Table of Contents
- Part I Western Marxism and Soviet-Type Societies
- Chapter 1 Authoritarian Socialism and the Frankfurt School
- Chapter 2 Between Apology and Critique: Marcuse's Soviet Marxism
- Chapter 3 Critical Sociology and Authoritarian State Socialism
- Chapter 4 From Western to Eastern Marxism: Rudolf Bahro
- Chapter 5 Immanent Critique and Authoritarian Socialism: On Konrad and Szelenyi's Intellectuals
- Chapter 6 The Budapest School and Actually Existing Socialism
- Chapter 7 Facing Russia: Castoriadis and the Problem of Soviet-Type Societies
- Part II The Rise of Civil Society and Democratic Theory
- Chapter 8 Civil Society vs. the State: Poland 1980-81
- Chapter 9 Empire vs. Civil Society: Poland 1981-82
- Chapter 10 The Democratic Theory of the Polish Opposition: Normative Intentions and Strategic Ambiguities
- Chapter 11 Some Perspectives of Democratization in East Central Europe
- Chapter 12 Social Theory, Civil Society, and the Transformation of Authoritarian Socialism
- Chapter 13 Revolution, Civil Society, and Democracy
- Chapter 14 Social Movements and Civil Society in the Soviet Union
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