Complications
Subtitle: communism and the dilemmas of democracy
By: Claude Lefort ; translated, with an introduction, by Julian Bourg.
Series: Columbia studies in political thought/political history
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780231133005
Subjects: Communism
Work titles: Complication.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Wisdom of the historian; title: Critique of "couch liberalism"; title: Autopsy of an illusion; title: Marx's false paternity; title: The idea of revolution and the revolutionary phenomenon; title: The Jacobin phantom; title: A liberal matrix for the dictatorship of the proletariat?; title: Democracy and totalitarianism; title: The myth of the Soviet Union in the West; title: The French communist party after World War II; title: Utopia and tragedy; title: The political and the social; title: An intentional movement; title: The party above all; title: Disincorporation and reincorporation of power; title: Hannah Arendt on the law of movement and ideology; title: The perversion of the law; title: The fabrication of the social voluntary servitude; title: Impossible reform; title: Planning and social division; title: Psychologism and moralism at fault; title: Communism and the constitution of the world-space.