FROM NEO-MARXISM TO DEMOCRATIC THEORY by Andrew Arato ( 9780873328821 )

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FROM NEO-MARXISM TO DEMOCRATIC THEORY
ESSAYS ON THE CRITICAL THEORY OF SOVIET-TYPE SOCIETIES

By:

Andrew Arato

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0873328825

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9780873328821

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC

Pub. date:

31 July, 1993

Pages:

256

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The essays in this volume attempt to search for a genuinely critical theory. The book begins with the question of why neo-Marxist and post-Marxist analysts failed to produce a critical theory of Soviet socialism or to establish a dynamic relationship with contemporary social

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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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M.E. Sharpe

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