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Complications : communism and the dilemmas of democracy / Claude Lefort ; translated, with an introduction, by Julian Bourg.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lefort, Claude
- Series:
- Columbia studies in political thought/political history
- Standardized Title:
- Complication. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Communism.
- Physical Description:
- x, 237 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2007]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-224) and index.
- Translated from the French.
- ISBN:
- 9780231133005
- 0231133006
- OCLC:
- 76416487
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