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- Title: From Neo-Marxism to Democratic Theory
- Author : Andrew Arato
- Release Date : January 16, 2016
- Genre: Political Science,Books,Politics & Current Events,Nonfiction,Social Science,Sociology,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4492 KB
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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.