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Online-Ressource (367 p)
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9780231158022
Series Statement:
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Content:
Communism no longer represents an appealing alternative to capitalism, having lost much of its political clout and theoretical power. In its original Marxist formulation, communism promised an ideal of development, but only through a logic of war, and while a number of reformist governments still promote this ideology, their legitimacy has steadily declined since the fall of the Berlin wall.Separating communism from its metaphysical foundations, which include an abiding faith in the immutable laws of history and an almost holy conception of the proletariat, Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala r
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Cover; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Framed Democracy; 1: Imposing Descriptions; Truth's Violence; The Conservative Nature of Realism; The Winner's History; 2: Armed Capitalism; The Impositions of the Liberal State; Conserving Financial Recessions; Fighting the Weak; Part II: Hermeneutic Communism; 3: Interpretation as Anarchy; The Anarchic Vein of Hermeneutics; Existence Is Interpretation; Hermeneutics as Weak Thought; 4: Hermeneutic communism; Weakened Communism; The South American Alternative; Chávez: A Model for Obama?; Notes
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BibliographyIndex;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231528078
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231158022
Additional Edition:
Print version Hermeneutic Communism : From Heidegger to Marx
Language:
English
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