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Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy

By Warren Breckman

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780231512893
DOI
10.7312/brec14394
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2086754 bytes)
Pages
376\376
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 23:23:36

Description

Marxism's collapse led prominent theorists to reject revolution and abandon class for more fragmented models of social action. Acknowledging the constructedness of society and politics, they chose the "symbolic" to reinvent leftist thought outside a Marxist framework. Mapping different ideas of the symbolic, Breckman traces Romantic themes and resonances, and he explores in depth the effort to reconcile a radical and democratic political agenda with a politics that does not privilege materialist understandings of the social. Warren Breckman critically revisits thrilling experiments in the aftermath of Marxism.

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