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The current political climate of uncompromising neoliberalism means that the need to study the logic of our culture—that is, the logic of the capitalist system—is compelling. Providing a rich philosophical analysis of democracy from a negative, non-identity, dialectical perspective, Vasilis Grollios encourages the reader not to think of democracy as a call for a more effective domination of the people or as a demand for the replacement of the elite that currently holds power. In doing so, he aspires to fill in a gap in the literature by offering an out-of-the-mainstream overview of the key concepts of totality, negativity, fetishization, contradiction, identity thinking, dialectics and corporeal materialism as they have been employed by the major thinkers of the critical theory tradition: Marx, Engels, Horkheimer, Lukacs, Adorno, Marcuse, Bloch and Holloway.
Their thinking had the following common keywords: contradiction, fetishism as a process and the notion of spell and all its implications. The author makes an innovative attempt to bring these concepts to light in terms of their practical relevance for contemporary democratic theory.
Contents
Contents
Foreword
Werner Bonefeld
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Marx and Engels's Critique of Democracy:
The Materialist Character of their Concept of Autonomy
Chapter 2: Dialectics and the Transition to Socialism in Late F. Engels's Philosophy of
History: Freeing Marx from the 'Withering Away of the State' theory
Chapter 3: Max Horkheimer's Dialectics Rehabilitated: How Horkheimer's 'Open
Marxism' Cracks Capitalism
Chapter 4: Dialectics and Democracy in Georg Lukacs' Marxism
Chapter 5: False Social Totality and the Ineffable Integrity in T. Adorno's Negative
Dialectics: The Critical Theorist and the Challenges of the 21st Century
Chapter 6: Determinate Negation of the One-dimensional Society: How Herbert
Marcuse's Great Refusal Cracks Capitalism
Chapter 7: Finding Hope in the Nihilism of Bourgeois Life. Ernst Bloch's Open Marxism
Reconsidered
Chapter 8: The Descendants of Negative Dialectics. Dialectics and Democracy in Open
Marxism
