Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lucacs to Habermas

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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Topography of Western Marxism 1. The Discourse of Totality Before Western Marxism 2. Georg Lukács and the Origins of the Western Marxist Paradigm 3. The Revolutionary Historicism of Karl Korsch 4. The Two Holisms of Antonio Gramsci 5. Ernst Bloch and the Extension of Marxist Holism to Nature 6. Max Horkheimer and the Retreat from Hegelian Marxism 7. Anamnestic Totalization: Memory in the Thought of Herbert Marcuse 8. Theodor W. Adorno and the Collapse of the Lukácsian Concept of Totality 9. Henri Lefebvre, the Surrealists and the Reception of Hegelian Marxism in France 10. Totality and Marxist Aesthetics: The Case of Lucien Goldmann 11. From Totality to Totalization: The Existentialist Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre 12. Phenomenological Marxism: The Ambiguities of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Holism 13. Louis Althusser and the Structuralist Reading of Marx 14. Scientific Marxism in Postwar Italy: Galvano Della Volpe and Lucio Colletti 15. Jürgen Habermas and the Reconstruction of Marxist Holism Epilogue: The Challenge of Post-Structuralism Selected Bibliography Index Blank Page