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From Neo-Marxism to Democratic Theory: Essays on the Critical Theory of Soviet-Type Societies

By Andrew Arato

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1993
ISBN
9781315487717, 0873328825, 9780873328821
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
678 kB (694044 bytes)
Pages
257\0
Time added
2022-08-10 12:25:25

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.

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