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Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism (Paperback)
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Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism (Paperback)
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Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism provides a
theoretical construction to the extraordinary events of the past
several years in Europe and the Soviet Union, and China. These
masterful essays attribute much of the problem of totalitarianism
to its blind acceptance of a Marxist philosophy of practice. With
the failure of communist practice, the collapse of the Marxian
paradigm was quick to follow.At its roots this volume is a critique
of the idea that we can have "scientific knowledge" of the social
and political future. Totalitarian Marxism combined statements of
history and claims of omniscience. Free choice was surrendered to
history, and when the predicted outcomes fail to materialize, when
communism came closer to being buried than capitalism, and western
ideals of democracy proved far more compelling than inherited
doctrines of authoritarianism, the outcome proved monumental and
disastrous.The authors position themselves as evolving from
critical Marxism to post-Marxism, and then post modernism. By this,
they mean a modest view of life, one that moves beyond radical
universalism and grand narrative, into a realization of
individualism and equity concerns are central to the end of the
twentieth century. The volume proceeds historically: from studies
of the classic Marxian legacy; to the early twentieth century
efforts of Lukacs, Weber and Adorno; proceeding to the
disintegration of the Marxian paradigm in both its pure and
revisionist forms. It ends with a study of options posed by this
paradigmatic collapse - to consideration of the status of
postmodernity and the choices between pure relativism and a
theological fundamentalism. ,This is a work of absolute importance
for political philosophy, the sociology of knowledge, and the
history of ideas. In raising recent events to a theoretically
meaningful framework, it represents a refreshing as well as
remarkable step toward understanding Revolutions from 1789 to 1989.
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