Adventures of the symbolic : post-Marxism and radical democracy /

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Author / Creator:	Breckman, Warren, 1963- author.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia Univesity Press, ©2013.
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 354 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History Columbia studies in political thought/political history.
Subject:	Democracy. Philosophy, Marxist. Political science -- Philosophy. Radicalism. Social sciences -- Philosophy. Democracy. Philosophy, Marxist. Political science -- Philosophy. Radicalism. Social sciences -- Philosophy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11191432

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ISBN:	9780231512893 0231512899 9780231143943
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English.
Summary:	Marxism's collapse in the twentieth century profoundly altered the style and substance of Western European radical thought. To build a more robust form of democratic theory and action, prominent theorists moved to reject revolution, abandon class for more fragmented models of social action, and elevate the political over the social. Acknowledging the constructedness of society and politics, they chose the "symbolic" as a concept powerful enough to reinvent leftist thought outside of a Marxist framework. Following Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Adventures of the Dialectic, which reassessed philosophical Marxism at mid century, Warren Breckman critically revisits these thrilling experiments in the aftermath of Marxism
Other form:	Print version: Breckman, Warren, 1963- Adventures of the symbolic. New York : Columbia University Press, [2013] 9780231143943

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