6.Claude Lefort’s Passage from Revolutionary Theory to Political Theory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Why Should We, and How Should We, Reclaim Marx? vii
4. Part 1. Marxism and the Intellectuals
5. 1.Marxism in the Postcommunist orWld 3
6. 2.Can French Intellectuals Escape Marxism 24
7. 3.The Frankfurt School and the Transformation of Critical Theory into Cultural Theory 39
8. 4.Habermas’ s Reorientation of Critical Theory Toward Democratic Theory 51
9. 5.The Anticommunist Marxism of Socialisme ou Barbarie 63
10. 6.Claude Lefort’s Passage from Revolutionary Theory to Political Theory 71
11. 7.From Marx to Castoriadis, and from Castoriadis 83
12. 8.From the Critique of Totalitarianism to the Politics of Democracy 99
13. Part 2. Republican Democracy or Democratic Republics
14. 9.The Burden of French History 139
15. 10.Intersecting Trajectories of Republicanism in France and the United States 173
16. 11. Reading U.S. History as Political 197
17. 12.Fundamentalism and the American Exception 220
18. Part 3. Back to Marx?
19. 13.Philosophy by Other Means 239
20. Notes 289
21. Index 335