Description: Further DetailsTitle: Adventures of the SymbolicCondition: NewEAN: 9780231143950ISBN: 9780231143950Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/08/2015Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Warren BreckmanLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Post-Marxism and Radical DemocracyISBN-10: 0231143958Description: 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 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. The post-Marxist idea of the symbolic is dynamic and complex, uncannily echoing the early German Romantics, who first advanced a modern conception of symbolism and the symbolic. Hegel and Marx denounced the Romantics for their otherworldly and nebulous posture, yet post-Marxist thinkers appreciated the rich potential of the ambiguities and paradoxes the Romantics first recognized.Mapping different ideas of the symbolic among contemporary thinkers, Breckman traces a fascinating reflection of Romantic themes and resonances, and he explores in depth the effort to reconcile a radical and democratic political agenda with a politics that does not privilege materialist understandings of the social. Engaging with the work of Claude Levi-Strauss, Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort, Marcel Gauchet, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, and Slavoj Zizek, Breckman uniquely situates these important theorists within two hundred years of European thought and extends their profound relevance to today's political activism.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political HistoryTopic: Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Adventures of the Symbolic
Title: Adventures of the Symbolic
EAN: 9780231143950
ISBN: 9780231143950
Release Date: 12/08/2015
Release Year: 2015
Subtitle: Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy
ISBN-10: 0231143958
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 376 Pages
Publication Name: Adventures of the Symbolic : Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Social, Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, History & Theory, Political, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2015
Item Weight: 18.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Philosophy
Author: Warren Breckman
Item Width: 7.6 in
Series: Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
