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020			_a9781315487717
037			_bTaylor & Francis _cGBP 42.99 _fBB
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100	1		_aAndrew Arato
245	1	0	_aFrom Neo-Marxism to Democratic Theory _bEssays on the Critical Theory of Soviet-type Societies
250			_a1
260			_aOxford _bRoutledge _c20160916
300			_a256 p
520			_bThe 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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