Jack Lawrence Luzkow

What's Left?

Marxism, Utopianism, and the Revolt Against History

Buch

The writings of Karl Marx explored the tensions between the laws of socialist science and a utopian longing for socialism; between a science of history and a prophetic hope based on moral and ethical ideals. His writings examined history and argued for the necessity of communism to achieve the moral ideal of utopia. Although Marx was the last great utopian, his work has been adapted in Russia and China to rationalize and justify totalitarian regimes, but it has also inspired Western utopian writers like Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, and Ernst Bloch. What's Left? Marxism, Utopianism and the Revolt against History, explores what remains of… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-7618-3545-5
EAN: 9780761835455
Produktnummer: 2517201
Verlag: University Press Of America
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 188 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.0 cm 282 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 282

Über den Autor

Jack Luzkow received his M.A. and Ph.D. in modern European history from Saint Louis University. He has held various appointments in academia at Union College, Marycrest College, and DePaul University and is currently at Fontbonne University. He has served on the editorial board of the National Social Science Journal and is the author of The Revenge of History: A Critique of Francis Fukuyama, and a number of scholarly articles.