Marxism and totality the adventures of a concept from Lukács to Habermas Martin Jay

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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

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

"A tour de force. It is "must" reading for anyone-scholar, sympathizer, critic, or concerned bystander-interested in the past, present, and possible futures of Western Marxism." - Terrence Ball, Ethics"Jay's approach, by virtue of its length, clarity, and comprehensiveness, considerably raises the previous level of discussion and finally makes avai

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