The Longing for Total Revolution Reconsidered

Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity
Herausgeber: Friedman, Jeffrey

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Contributors to the volume discuss, inter alia, left Kantianism in historical context, the theological origins of the longing for total revolution, the question of whether the tradition identified by Bernard Yack is connected to twentieth-century totalitarianism, and the unique form of critical genealogy pioneered by Yack's book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781032356518
• ISBN-10: 1032356510
• Artikelnr.: 64643893

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Friedman, the Editor of Critical Review, is Visiting Scholar in the Social Studies program at Harvard University, USA. He has taught political theory at Barnard College, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Yale University, and is the author of Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Longing for Total Revolution as Critical but Ideational
Genealogy 1. The Theological Origins and Underpinning of the Longing for
Total Revolution 2. Is Marx's Thought on Freedom Contradictory? 3.
Left-Kantian Perfectionism 4. Reading Yack While Pondering the Origins of
Totalitarianism 5. Longing for Total Dichotomies 6. Revisiting The Longing
for Total Revolution