Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to Habermas - Softcover

Jay, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520057422 ISBN 13: 9780520057425

Publisher: University of California Press, 1986

Synopsis

Totality has been an abiding concern from the first generation of Western Marxists, most notably Lukács, Korsch, Gramsci, and Bloch, through the second, exemplified by the Frankfurt School, Lefebvre, Goldmann, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Della Volpe, up to the most recent, typified by Althusser, Colletti, and Habermas. Yet no consensus has been reached concerning the term's multiple meanings―expressive, decentered, longitudinal, latitudinal, normative―or its implications for other theoretical and practical matters. By closely following the adventures of this troublesome but central concept, Marxism & Totality offers an unconventional account of the history of Western Marxism.

About this title

About the Author:

Martin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his books are Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought and, as co-editor, The Weimar Sourcebook, both published by the University of California Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0520057422
• ISBN 13: 9780520057425
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576