Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism write by Agnes Heller. This book was released on 2023-04-14. Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Freedom and Dissatisfaction in the Works of Agnes Heller - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freedom and Dissatisfaction in the Works of Agnes Heller write by Lucy Jane Ward. This book was released on 2016-12-27. Freedom and Dissatisfaction in the Works of Agnes Heller available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Critiques of Everyday Life
Critiques of Everyday Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critiques of Everyday Life write by Michael Gardiner. This book was released on 2002-01-04. Critiques of Everyday Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the study of everyday life within the social sciences and humanities. In Critiques of Everyday Life Michael Gardiner proposes that there exists a counter-tradition within everyday life theorising. This counter-tradition has sought not merely to describe lived experience, but to transform it by elevating our understanding of the everyday to the status of a critical knowledge. In his analysis Gardiner engages with the work of a number of significant theorists and approaches that have been marginalized by mainstream academe, including: *The French tradition of everyday life theorising, from the surrealists to Henri Lefebvre, and from the Situationist International to Michel de Certeau *Agnes Heller and the relationship between the everyday, rationality and ethics *Carnival, prosaics and intersubjectivity in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin *Dorothy E. Smith's feminist perspective on everyday life. Critiques of Everyday Life demonstrates the importance of an alternative, multidisciplinary everyday life paradigm and offers a myriad of new possibilities for critical social and cultural theorising and empirical research.
The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers
The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers write by Robert Benewick. This book was released on 2002-09-11. The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edition has been revised and extended to include eleven new entries on Berlin, Chomsky, Derrida, Rorty and many others. Key features of this unique guide include: * 170 entries from 96 contributors, many of whom are leading authorities in their field * alphabetically arranged entries which include brief biographies, outlines of major ideas and suggestions for further reading * coverage of Western and Third World political theorists as well as those who have influenced new movements based on the issues of ethnicity, gender and ecology * a thematically organised index
Globalization and Utopia
Globalization and Utopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Globalization and Utopia write by P. Hayden. This book was released on 2009-03-12. Globalization and Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Taking aim at the belief in utopia's demise, this collection of original essays offers a new look at the vibrant renewal of utopianism emerging in response to the challenges of globalization. It consider questions of hope and transformation associated with the utopian desire for social change.
