Complications : communism and the dilemmas of democracy / Claude Lefort

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Main Authors:Lefort, Claude (Author)
Other Authors:Bourg, Julian (Other)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published:New York, NY [u.a.] : Columbia Univ. Press, 2007
Series:Columbia studies in political thought/political history
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip075/2006036788.html
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Item Description:Wisdom of the historian -- Critique of "couch liberalism" -- Autopsy of an illusion -- Marx's false paternity -- The idea of revolution and the revolutionary phenomenon -- The Jacobin phantom -- A liberal matrix for the dictatorship of the proletariat? -- Democracy and totalitarianism -- The myth of the Soviet Union in the West -- The French communist party after World War II -- Utopia and tragedy -- The political and the social -- An intentional movement -- The party above all -- Disincorporation and reincorporation of power -- Hannah Arendt on the law of movement and ideology -- The perversion of the law -- The fabrication of the social voluntary servitude -- Impossible reform -- Planning and social division -- Psychologism and moralism at fault -- Communism and the constitution of the world-space. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP
Physical Description:X, 237 S.
ISBN:0231133006
9780231133005