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Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism

Author : Agnes Heller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000948730
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism written by Agnes Heller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism provides a theoretical construction to the extraordinary events of the past several years in Europe and the Soviet Union, and China. These masterful essays attribute much of the problem of totalitarianism to its blind acceptance of a Marxist philosophy of practice. With the failure of communist practice, the collapse of the Marxian paradigm was quick to follow.At its roots this volume is a critique of the idea that we can have "scientific knowledge" of the social and political future. Totalitarian Marxism combined statements of history and claims of omniscience. Free choice was surrendered to history, and when the predicted outcomes fail to materialize, when communism came closer to being buried than capitalism, and western ideals of democracy proved far more compelling than inherited doctrines of authoritarianism, the outcome proved monumental and disastrous.The authors position themselves as evolving from critical Marxism to post-Marxism, and then post modernism. By this, they mean a modest view of life, one that moves beyond radical universalism and grand narrative, into a realization of individualism and equity concerns are central to the end of the twentieth century. The volume proceeds historically: from studies of the classic Marxian legacy; to the early twentieth century efforts of Lukacs, Weber and Adorno; proceeding to the disintegration of the Marxian paradigm in both its pure and revisionist forms. It ends with a study of options posed by this paradigmatic collapse - to consideration of the status of postmodernity and the choices between pure relativism and a theological fundamentalism. ,This is a work of absolute importance for political philosophy, the sociology of knowledge, and the history of ideas. In raising recent events to a theoretically meaningful framework, it represents a refreshing as well as remarkable step toward understanding Revolutions from 1789 to 1989.

Freedom and Dissatisfaction in the Works of Agnes Heller

Author : Lucy Jane Ward
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739189778
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Dissatisfaction in the Works of Agnes Heller written by Lucy Jane Ward and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ward’s book focuses on the work of the Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller; prominent member of the Budapest School, a group of students who studied under the Marxist social theorist György Lukács. For both Marx and Heller (albeit in different ways) dissatisfaction emerges as the inevitable result of the expansion of need(s) within modernity and as a catalyst for the development of anthropological wealth (what Marx refers to as the 'human being rich in need'). Ward argues that dissatisfaction and the corresponding category of human wealth–as both motif and method–is central to grasping Heller’s seemingly disparate writings. While Marx postulates a radical overcoming of dissatisfaction, Heller argues dissatisfaction is integral not only to the on-going survival of modernity but also to the dynamics of both freedom and individual life. In this way Heller’s work remains committed to a position that both continually returns and departs, is both with and against, the philosophy of Marx. This book will be of interest to scholars of political philosophy, social theory, critical theory, and sociology.

Feminism As Radical Humanism

Author : Pauline Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429969066
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Feminism As Radical Humanism written by Pauline Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Johnson, feminism must recognize itself as a humanism in order to avoid certain theoretical quagmires. [The argument] is extremely provocative, and even, I would say, necessary. This book is sure to be controversial and of interest to a wide audience in feminist theory. I know of no other treatment of feminism and humanism that is so clear, cogent, and systematic. Judith Grant University of Southern California Feminism is currently at an impasse. Both the liberation feminism of the 1970’s and the more recent feminism of difference are increasingly faced with the limitations of their own perspectives. While feminists today generally acknowledge the need to recognise diversity, they lack a coherent framework through which this need can be articulated. In Feminism as Radical Humanism, Pauline Johnson calls for a reassessment of feminism’s relationship to modern humanism. She argues that despite its very thorough and necessary critique of mainstream formulations of humanist ideals, feminism itself remains strongly committed to humanist values. Drawing on a broad range of political and intellectual traditions, Johnson demonstrates that, only by proudly affirming its own humanist commitments can feminist theory find a way to negotiate the impasse in which it currently finds itself. Feminism as Radical Humanism is an important and controversial contribution to feminist theory, and to the ongoing debate about the meaning of contemporary humanism.

Eurocentrism: a marxian critical realist critique

Author : Nick Hostettler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135181314
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Eurocentrism: a marxian critical realist critique written by Nick Hostettler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political and social structures of modernity are dominated by really eurocentric forms and relations, yet the theorisation of the eurocentricity of modernity remains barely developed. At the same time, modern political and social theory is fundamentally eurocentric, yet the critique of eurocentrism remains marginal to marxian and critical realist theory. Addressing the eurocentrism of both modernity and modern theory, Eurocentrism: A Marxian Critical Realist Critique discloses the deeply embedded constraints it imposes on historical and social reflexivity. Building on the insights of post-structuralism and post-colonialism, Eurocentrism shows how the powerful anti-eurocentric tendencies of the marxian critique of civil society and the critical realist critique of philosophy have been misunderstood or ignored. It develops the latent potential of these traditions to develop a systematically anti-eurocentric approach to understanding and explaining modernity.

Critical Theories and the Budapest School

Author : John Rundell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315472430
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Critical Theories and the Budapest School written by John Rundell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Theories and the Budapest School brings together new perspectives on the Budapest School in the context of contemporary developments in critical theory. Engaging with the work of the prominent group of figures associated with Georg Lukács, this book sheds new light on the unique and nuanced critiques of modernity offered by this school, informed as its members’ insights have been by first-hand experiences of Nazism, Soviet-type societies, and the liberal-democratic West. With studies of topics central to contemporary critical theory, such as the political and historical consciousness of modernity, the importance of bio-politics, the complexity of the human condition, and the relevance of comedy and friendship to developing critical perspectives, the authors draw on the works of Ágnes Heller, Maria Márkus, György Márkus, and Ferenc Fehér, demonstrating their enduring relevance to critical theory today and the ways in which these philosophers can inform new perspectives on culture and politics. An innovative reassessment of the Budapest School and the importance of its legacy, this book opens a much-needed and neglected dialogue with other schools and traditions of critical theorizing that will be of interest to scholars of sociology, philosophy, and social theory.

Debating Humanity

Author : Daniel Chernilo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316995941
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Debating Humanity written by Daniel Chernilo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debating Humanity explores sociological and philosophical efforts to delineate key features of humanity that identify us as members of the human species. After challenging the normative contradictions of contemporary posthumanism, this book goes back to the foundational debate on humanism between Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger in the 1940s and then re-assesses the implicit and explicit anthropological arguments put forward by seven leading postwar theorists: self-transcendence (Hannah Arendt), adaptation (Talcott Parsons), responsibility (Hans Jonas), language (Jürgen Habermas), strong evaluations (Charles Taylor), reflexivity (Margaret Archer) and reproduction of life (Luc Boltanski). Genuinely interdisciplinary and boldly argued, Daniel Chernilo has crafted a novel philosophical sociology that defends a universalistic principle of humanity as vital to any adequate understanding of social life.

Soul and Form

Author : Georg Lukács
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231520697
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Soul and Form written by Georg Lukács and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: György Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others. By isolating the formal techniques these thinkers developed, Lukács laid the groundwork for his later work in Marxist aesthetics, a field that introduced the historical and political implications of text. For this centennial edition, John T. Sanders and Katie Terezakis add a dialogue entitled "On Poverty of Spirit," which Lukács wrote at the time of Soul and Form, and an introduction by Judith Butler, which compares Lukács's key claims to his later work and subsequent movements in literary theory and criticism. In an afterword, Terezakis continues to trace the Lukácsian system within his writing and other fields. These essays explore problems of alienation and isolation and the curative quality of aesthetic form, which communicates both individuality and a shared human condition. They investigate the elements that give rise to form, the history that form implies, and the historicity that form embodies. Taken together, they showcase the breakdown, in modern times, of an objective aesthetics, and the rise of a new art born from lived experience.

Soul & Form

Author : György Lukács
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231149808
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Soul & Form written by György Lukács and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: György Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others. By isolating the formal techniques these thinkers developed, Lukács laid the groundwork for his later work in Marxist aesthetics, a field that introduced the historical and political implications of text. For this centennial edition, John T. Sanders and Katie Terezakis add a dialogue entitled "On Poverty of Spirit," which Lukács wrote at the time of Soul and Form, and an introduction by Judith Butler, which compares Lukács's key claims to his later work and subsequent movements in literary theory and criticism. In an afterword, Terezakis continues to trace the Lukácsian system within his writing and other fields. These essays explore problems of alienation and isolation and the curative quality of aesthetic form, which communicates both individuality and a shared human condition. They investigate the elements that give rise to form, the history that form implies, and the historicity that form embodies. Taken together, they showcase the breakdown, in modern times, of an objective aesthetics, and the rise of a new art born from lived experience.

Ideologies and the Corruption of Thought

Author : Joseph Gabel
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412825825
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Ideologies and the Corruption of Thought written by Joseph Gabel and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five years ago Joseph Gabel pubÂlished a modern masterpiece, which in 1975 appeared in English as False ConÂsciousness: An Essay on Reificalion . Combining his special knowledge of existential psychiatry, axiology, MarxÂism, and political history, Gabel proÂposed the utterly novel idea that victims of serious mental disturbances (espeÂcially paranoia and schizophrenia) reÂproduce those distorted thought patÂterns commonly associated with ideoÂlogical beliefs at the collective level. Such beliefs initially had been laid bare in the 1920s by Gabel's intellectual progenitors, Karl Mannheim and George Lukacs. Gabel's remarkable innovation was to transfer the private crisis of mental collapse into the analytic frameÂwork previously reserved for ideological critique, making him an expert on what was later called "the micro-macro probÂlem." Ideologies and the Corruption of Thought includes Gabel's essays over the last 40 years, characteristically treating micro and macro theoretical matters simultaneously. Originally writÂten in French and German, they have been recast in idiomatic English and bibliographically updated. Using a unique mode and vocabulary of analyÂsis, Gabel offers theoretical investigaÂtions of McCarthyism and Stalinism (original and more recent types), as well as Althusser, Orwell, and Jonathan Swift in his capacity as a psychiatric theorist. He also explores anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism, and a fascinating case study of a paranoid who regarded himÂself as the pope. In addition this volume includes a range of general commentarÂies on ideological "thought," utopianism, and false consciousness. This rich feast of social and political analysis and theory illuminates a range of contemporary concernsâracism, Utopian fantasy, ethnocentrism, anti-Semitism, the interplay of social strucÂture and mental illness, and ideological transformations of social lifeâwhich only Gabel's unique mixture of the cliniÂcal and the political could achieve. It will be studied with interest by all theoÂrists and politically alert readers in the social sciences, philosophy, and related fields of study.

Lukács’s Phenomenology of Capitalism

Author : Richard Westerman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331993287X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Lukács’s Phenomenology of Capitalism written by Richard Westerman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a radical new interpretation of Georg Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness, showing for the first time how the philosophical framework for his analysis of society was laid in the drafts of a philosophy of art that he planned but never completed before he converted to Marxism. Reading Lukács’s work through the so-called “Heidelberg Aesthetics” reveals for the first time a range of unsuspected influences on his thought, such as Edmund Husserl, Emil Lask, and Alois Riegl; it also offers a theory of subjectivity within social relations that avoids many of the problems of earlier readings of his text. At a time when Lukács’s reputation is once more on the rise, this bold new reading helps revitalize his thought in ways that help it speak to contemporary concerns.

Mainlining Marx

Author : John Stanley
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412827829
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Mainlining Marx written by John Stanley and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years a host of Western Marxists have tried to emancipate Marx from responsibility for various unsavory doctrines. Political theorists have argued that Marx can avoid the weight of Stalinism and also the various theories, such as positivism, naturalism, Darwinism, technological determinism and the dialectics of nature that support Marxism. In the course of building up their defense of Marx, these modern critics have developed an elaborate but often confusing rationale whose premise consists of attributing many of the nefarious tendencies of Marxism to Engels, particularly the latter's philosophy of nature. In Mainlining Marx, John L. Stanley sets Marx's view of nature back in its proper perspective. Stanley challenges the "new orthodoxy" of prominent Marxist scholars who see a fundamental dichotomy between Marx and Engels with the latter believing in cosmic superlaws and the former adhering to historically grounded ones. Stanley argues both Marx and Engels used historical and transhistorical laws at various times. He is highly critical of those who abstract theoretical principles out of texts Marx wrote with specific and historical political goals in mind. He takes issue, as well, with critics who posit a Marxian belief in communist as against natural needs, and further challenges the new orthodoxy in his analysis of Marx's dissertation, showing that from the beginning Marx's thought was grounded in materialist determinism. Supplementing the chapters on Marx and his critics, the volume concludes with an essay on Georges Sorel's approach to textual analysis and interpretation, showing how Sorel, far in advance of his time realized the impossibility of completely objective analysis and the inevitable distortion of the subject under study. Throughout this volume, Stanley's critical approach utilizes Sorel's illuminating insights to point out the distortions in modern Marxian analysis. Challenging and original, Mainlining Marx is a major contribution to the study of Marxism. It will be read by economists, political scientists, and intellectual historians. John L. Stanley (1937-1998) was professor of political science at the University of California at Riverside. He was the author of The Sociology of Virtue: The Political and Social Theories of Georges Sorel and the translator and editor of The Illusions of Progress by Georges Sorel, and From Georges Sorel: Essays in Socialism and Philosophy.

Agnes Heller

Author : Simon Tormey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719060380
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Agnes Heller written by Simon Tormey and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thorough examination of Agnes Heller's political thought covers a range of subjects, from Marxian anthropology, through aesthetics, the philosophy of history, ethical socialism, postmodernism, and the political forms of the modern state. Simon Tormey treats Heller's work historically and thematically, placing it in a postmodern, 21st-century context.

Marxism’s Ethical Thinkers

Author : L. Wilde
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230288723
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Marxism’s Ethical Thinkers written by L. Wilde and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Marxism's uneasy relationship with ethics a small number of prominent theorists considered it imperative to highlight the moral principles implicit in Marx's social theory and to develop these ethics in the light of changing conditions. They developed a humanistic Marxism in stark contrast to the crude 'end justifies the means' approach of Stalinism. This collection brings together analyses by leading scholars on those thinkers who made significant contributions to ethical thinking within the Marxist tradition - Kautsky, Bloch, Fromm, Marcuse, Lefebvre, Macpherson and Heller.

Worlds of Difference

Author : Peter Pericles Trifonas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317248678
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Worlds of Difference written by Peter Pericles Trifonas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The varying interests of competing minority groups often part company with regard to how to achieve an equitable community. Worlds of Difference rethinks the traditional interpretation of the principle of educational equity in light of this difficulty. Theorists and educational practitioners influenced by many disparate schools of thought reflect upon the possibilities of a "curriculum of difference" in relation to questions of language, culture, and media at the forefront of global education issues today. Collectively, the authors argue that education in theory and practice must reawaken an ethical consciousness that affirms the negative values of difference, but still recognizes the uniqueness and particularity of each group.

The Revival of Political Imagination

Author : Teppo Eskelinen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786999587
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book The Revival of Political Imagination written by Teppo Eskelinen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revival of Political Imagination offers a unique examination of the methodological aspects of utopia. Discussing utopia as a tool for social criticism, method and imaginative spaces - rather than in terms of its content - this volume analyses the function of utopias, to develop utopias as methodology and to show how instrumental utopian modes of thought can be in such diverse fields such as education, labour, and housing. Including discussions of traditional and contemporary utopias, as well as various forms of expression of utopian hope, from literature to social science and cultural practices, The Revival of Political Imagination is both analytical and practical in its elucidation of how political theory can function to foster our imaginative skills.

The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy

Author : Eduardo Mendieta
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742569438
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy written by Eduardo Mendieta and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2002-07-23 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl-Otto Apel is one of the most important German philosophers of the 20th century, and is finally coming to be recognized as such. However, his work is still poorly understood and inadequately treated throughout most of the world. In The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy, critical theory scholar Eduardo Mendieta examines the philosophical origins of discourse ethics through the prism of Apel's thought. Mendieta finds that Apel fundamentally transformed German philosophy, which had become stagnant in the years before World War II, and deeply influenced later thinkers such as JYrgen Habermas. Apel's turn toward pragmatism and analytic philosophy helped him bring the concept of a linguistic paradigm shift to Germany.

Marxism, the Millennium and Beyond

Author : M. Cowling
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230518761
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Marxism, the Millennium and Beyond written by M. Cowling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-10-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection investigates the "state of play" in studies informed by Marxism. Among other contributions, it includes an essay on state theory by Bob Jessop, a discussion of fundamental socialist values using analytical Marxism by Alan Carling.