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Complications : communism and the dilemmas of democracy
- Title
- Complications : communism and the dilemmas of democracy / Claude Lefort ; translated, with an introduction, by Julian Bourg.
- Author
- Lefort, Claude.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
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Details
- Description
- x, 237 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Columbia studies in political thought/political history
- Uniform Title
- Complication. English
- Alternative Title
- Complication.
- Subject
- Communism
- Note
- Translated from the French.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-224) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Contents
- Wisdom of the historian -- Critique of "couch liberalism" -- Autopsy of an illusion -- Marx's false paternity -- The idea of revolution and the revolutionary phenomenon -- The Jacobin phantom -- A liberal matrix for the dictatorship of the proletariat? -- Democracy and totalitarianism -- The myth of the Soviet Union in the West -- The French communist party after World War II -- Utopia and tragedy -- The political and the social -- An intentional movement -- The party above all -- Disincorporation and reincorporation of power -- Hannah Arendt on the law of movement and ideology -- The perversion of the law -- The fabrication of the social -- Voluntary servitude -- Impossible reform -- Planning and social division -- Psychologism and moralism at fault -- Communism and the constitution of the world-space.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-6094
- ISBN
- 9780231133005 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231133006 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006036788
- OCLC
- 76416487
- Author
- Lefort, Claude.
- Title
- Complications : communism and the dilemmas of democracy / Claude Lefort ; translated, with an introduction, by Julian Bourg.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
- Series
- Columbia studies in political thought/political history
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-224) and index.
- Language
- Translated from the French.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-6094