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

Andrew Arato

M.E. Sharpe, c1993

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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.

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  • 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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