Vasilis Grollios (Independent Researcher.)

Negativity and Democracy

Marxism and the Critical Theory Tradition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the practical relevance of these notions for a contemporary democratic theory. Vasilis Grollios offers a unique overview of the key concepts of totality, negativity, fetishization, contradiction, mystification, identity thinking, dialectics and corporeal materialism as they have been employed by the major thinkers of the critical theory tradition - Marx, Engels, Horkheimer, Lukacs, Adorno, Marcuse, E. Bloch and J. Holloway.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781138886469
• ISBN-10: 1138886467
• Artikelnr.: 43674724

Autorenporträt

Vasilis Grollios teaches under contract at the Greek Open university.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword
Werner Bonefeld
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Marx and Engels's Critique of Democracy:
The Materialist Character of their Concept of Autonomy
Chapter 2: Dialectics and the Transition to Socialism in Late F. Engels's
Philosophy of
History: Freeing Marx from the 'Withering Away of the State' theory
Chapter 3: Max Horkheimer's Dialectics Rehabilitated: How Horkheimer's
'Open
Marxism' Cracks Capitalism
Chapter 4: Dialectics and Democracy in Georg Lukacs' Marxism
Chapter 5: False Social Totality and the Ineffable Integrity in T. Adorno's
Negative
Dialectics: The Critical Theorist and the Challenges of the 21st Century
Chapter 6: Determinate Negation of the One-dimensional Society: How Herbert
Marcuse's Great Refusal Cracks Capitalism
Chapter 7: Finding Hope in the Nihilism of Bourgeois Life. Ernst Bloch's
Open Marxism
Reconsidered
Chapter 8: The Descendants of Negative Dialectics. Dialectics and Democracy
in Open
Marxism