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Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 3: The Breakdown

Leszek Kołakowski

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Traces the development of Marxism and its impact on Soviet culture.

The third volume deals with Marxist thinkers such as Leon Trotsky, Antonio Gramsci, Lukács, Joseph Stalin, Karl Korsch, Lucien Goldmann, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, and Ernst Bloch, as well as the Frankfurt School and critical theory. Kołakowski critically discusses works such as Lukács's History and Class Consciousness and Bloch's The Principle of Hope . He also discusses Jean-Paul Sartre. Kołakowski criticizes Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason . Kołakowski criticizes dialectical materialism, arguing that it consists partly of truisms with no specific Marxist content, partly of philosophical dogmas, partly of nonsense, and partly of statements that could be any of these things depending on how they are interpreted.

Language: English

Pages: 560

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: July 02, 1981

ISBN: 0192851098

ISBN 13: 9780192851093

Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution Volume 3: The Breakdown

Leszek Kołakowski

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Traces the development of Marxism and its impact on Soviet culture.

The third volume deals with Marxist thinkers such as Leon Trotsky, Antonio Gramsci, Lukács, Joseph Stalin, Karl Korsch, Lucien Goldmann, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, and Ernst Bloch, as well as the Frankfurt School and critical theory. Kołakowski critically discusses works such as Lukács's History and Class Consciousness and Bloch's The Principle of Hope . He also discusses Jean-Paul Sartre. Kołakowski criticizes Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason . Kołakowski criticizes dialectical materialism, arguing that it consists partly of truisms with no specific Marxist content, partly of philosophical dogmas, partly of nonsense, and partly of statements that could be any of these things depending on how they are interpreted.

Language: English

Pages: 560

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: July 02, 1981

ISBN: 0192851098

ISBN 13: 9780192851093

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