Overview

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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Author:   Andrew Arato
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   M.E. Sharpe
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9780873328821

ISBN 10:   0873328825
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   31 July 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I Western Marxism and Soviet-Type Societies; Chapter 1 Authoritarian Socialism and the Frankfurt School; Chapter 2 Between Apology and Critique: Marcuse's Soviet Marxism; Chapter 3 Critical Sociology and Authoritarian State Socialism; Chapter 4 From Western to Eastern Marxism: Rudolf Bahro; Chapter 5 Immanent Critique and Authoritarian Socialism: On Konrad and Szelenyi's Intellectuals; Chapter 6 The Budapest School and Actually Existing Socialism; Chapter 7 Facing Russia: Castoriadis and the Problem of Soviet-Type Societies; Part II The Rise of Civil Society and Democratic Theory; Chapter 8 Civil Society vs. the State: Poland 1980-81; Chapter 9 Empire vs. Civil Society: Poland 1981-82; Chapter 10 The Democratic Theory of the Polish Opposition: Normative Intentions and Strategic Ambiguities; Chapter 11 Some Perspectives of Democratization in East Central Europe; Chapter 12 Social Theory, Civil Society, and the Transformation of Authoritarian Socialism; Chapter 13 Revolution, Civil Society, and Democracy; Chapter 14 Social Movements and Civil Society in the Soviet Union;

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