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Leaving Marxism : studies in the dissolution of an ideology / Stanley Pierson.
LIBRA HX528 .P54 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pierson, Stanley, 1925-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communism and intellectuals--Case studies.
- Communism and intellectuals.
- Man, Hendrik de, 1885-1953.
- Man, Hendrik de.
- Horkheimer, Max, 1895-1973.
- Horkheimer, Max.
- Kołakowski, Leszek.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 232 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- This book seeks to understand the failure of Marxism by viewing it up close, in the experiences of three important Marxist intellectuals, each of whom embraced Marxism early in life and later decisively rejected it. Their experiences provide the framework for a more general account of modern ideological disenchantment.
- Contents:
- Part I Anticipations
- 1. The Nietzschean Presence in the European Socialist Movements 7
- Part II Three Case Studies
- 2. Henri De Man 31
- 3. Max Horkheimer 76
- 4. Leszek Kolakowski 128.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-227) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804744041
- OCLC:
- 47444003
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