Marxism and Totality The Adventures of a Concept from Luk&225cs to Habermas [Paperback]

Totality has been an abiding concern from the first generation of Western Marxists, most notably Luk?cs, Korsch, Gramsci, and Bloch, through the second, exemplified by the Frankfurt School, Lefebvre, Goldmann, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Della Volpe, up to the most recent, typified by Althusser, Colletti, and Habermas. Yet no consensus has been reached concerning the term's multiple meaningsexpressive, decentered, longitudinal, latitudinal, normativeor its implications for other theoretical and practical matters. By closely following the adventures of this troublesome but central concept,Marxism & Totalityoffers an unconventional account of the history of Western Marxism.

Martin Jayis Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his books areDowncast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thoughtand, as co-editor,The Weimar Sourcebook, both published by the University of California Press.