Beschreibung:
Darrow Schecter is Reader in Intellectual History in the School of Humanities at the University of Sussex
Beyond Hegemony investigates the authoritarianism and breakdown of those state socialist governments in Russia and elsewhere which claim to put Marx's ideas on democracy and equality into practice.
Introduction1. Liberalism and discourses of legality: Limiting human agency in the name ofnegative liberty2. Democracy and discourses of legitimacy: Liberating human agency from liberal legal form3. Inside the liberal machine4. Idealism, legality and reconciliation with external nature5. Materialism, legitimacy and reconciliation with human natureConclusion