The Marxian Legacy The Search for the New Left

The Marxian Legacy, first published in 1977 and released in a second edition in 1988, was and remains distinct in its view of Marxian theory as 'critique, ' aware of its own origins and limitations and self-conscious about its own historical rootedne

  • PDF / 2,832,624 Bytes
  • 421 Pages / 419.58 x 612.28 pts Page_size
  • 37 Downloads / 179 Views

DOWNLOAD

REPORT


D IC K HOWA RD

Political Philosophy and Public Purpose Series Editor Michael J. Thompson William Paterson University New York, NY, USA

This series offers books that seek to explore new perspectives in social and political criticism. Seeing contemporary academic political theory and philosophy as largely dominated by hyper-academic and overly-technical debates, the books in this series seek to connect the politically engaged traditions of philosophical thought with contemporary social and political life. The idea of philosophy emphasized here is not as an aloof enterprise, but rather a publicly-oriented activity that emphasizes rational reflection as well as informed praxis. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14542

Dick Howard

The Marxian Legacy The Search for the New Left

Third edition

Dick Howard Department of Philosophy Stony Brook University New York, NY, USA

ISSN 2524-714X ISSN 2524-7158  (electronic) Political Philosophy and Public Purpose ISBN 978-3-030-04410-7    ISBN 978-3-030-04411-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04411-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018964090 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover design by Laura de Grasse This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

In Memory of Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997) And Claude Lefort (1924–2010)

Series Editor’s Foreword

As a new era of populism dawns, there is a kind of nostalgia that sets in when thinking about how the New Left of the late 1960s and 1970s unfolded. It is all too easy to forget the seriousness of the ways that this generation was rethi