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

By Martin Jay

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1984
ISBN
0520050967, 9780520050969
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10780355 bytes)
Pages
587\588
Time added
2020-11-30 23:09:23

Description

Totality has been an abiding concern from the first generation of Western Marxists, most notably Lukács, Korsch, Gramsci, and Bloch, through the second, exemplified by the Frankfurt School, Lefebvre, Goldmann, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Della Volpe, up to the most recent, typified by Althusser, Colletti, and Habermas. Yet no consensus has been reached concerning the term's multiple meanings—expressive, decentered, longitudinal, latitudinal, normative—or its implications for other theoretical and practical matters. By closely following the adventures of this troublesome but central concept, Marxism & Totality offers an unconventional account of the history of Western Marxism.

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