Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy

by Warren Breckman

Book Overview

Marxism's collapse in the twentieth century profoundly altered the style and substance of Western European radical thought. To build a more robust form of democratic theory and action, prominent theorists moved to reject revolution, abandon class for more fragmented models of social action, and elevate the political over the social. Acknowledging the constructedness of society and politics, they chose the "symbolic" as a concept powerful enough...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231143958
• ISBN13: 9780231143950
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"