Marxism and totality : the adventures of a concept from Lucács to Habermas

Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction: The Topography of Western Marxism 14 1. The Discourse of Totality Before Western Marxism 34 2. Georg Lukács and the Origins of the Western Marxist Paradigm 94 3. The Revolutionary Historicism of Karl Korsch 141 4. The Two Holisms of Antonio Gramsci 163 5. Ernst Bloch and the Extension of Marxist Holism to Nature 187 6. Max Horkheimer and the Retreat from Hegelian Marxism 209 7. Anamnestic Totalization: Memory in the Thought of Herbert Marcuse 233 8. Theodor W. Adorno and the Collapse of the Lukácsian Concept of Totality 254 9. Henri Lefebvre, the Surrealists and the Reception of Hegelian Marxism in France 289 10. Totality and Marxist Aesthetics: The Case of Lucien Goldmann 313 11. From Totality to Totalization: The Existentialist Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre 344 12. Phenomenological Marxism: The Ambiguities of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Holism 374 13. Louis Althusser and the Structuralist Reading of Marx 398 14. Scientific Marxism in Postwar Italy: Galvano Della Volpe and Lucio Colletti 436 15. Jürgen Habermas and the Reconstruction of Marxist Holism 475 Epilogue: The Challenge of Post-Structuralism 523 Selected Bibliography 552 Index 560 Blank Page 1