The Marxian Legacy The Search for the New Left /

• Main Author: Howard, Dick (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2019.
• Series: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose,
• Subjects: Political theory.; Political philosophy.; Political Theory.; Political Philosophy.

The Marxian Legacy, first published in 1977 and released in a second edition in 1988, was and remains distinct in its view of Marxian theory as 'critique, ' aware of its own origins and limitations and self-conscious about its own historical rootedness in changing social and political cond...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The New Left and the Marxian Legacy: Early encounters in the U.S., France and Germany
• 2. Theory, the Theorist and Revolutionary Practice: Rosa Luxemburg
• 3. Marxism and Concrete Philosophy: Ernst Bloch
• 4. Towards a Critical Theory: Max Horkheimer
• 5. From Critical Theory towards Political Theory: Jürgen Habermas
• 6. The Rationality of the Dialectic: Jean-Paul Sartre
• 7. From Marxism to Ontology: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• 8. Ontology and the Political Project: Cornelius Castoriadis
• 9. Afterword to the second edition: Actualizing the Legacy : New Social Movements in the West and Civil Society against the State in the East.