
Beyond Hegemony
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Beyond Hegemony investigates the authoritarianism and breakdown of those state socialist governments in Russia and elsewhere which claim to put Marx's ideas on democracy and equality into practice. The book explains that although many aspects of Marx's critique are still valid today, his ideas need to be supplemented by the contributions to social theory made by Nietzsche, Foucault, the critical theory of the Frankfurt School as well as the libertarian socialism of G.D.H. Cole. What emerges is a new theory of political legitimacy which indicates how it is possible to move beyond liberal democracy whilst avoiding the authoritarian turn of state socialism.
Schecter points out the weaknesses of the many extra-legal accounts of non-formal legitimacy now on offer, such as those based on friendship and identity. He then argues that the first step beyond hegemony depends on the discovery of forms of legitimate legality and demonstrates why the conditions of legitimate law can be identified. -- .
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- Intro
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Liberalism and discourses of legality: limitinghuman agency in the name of negative liberty
- Chapter 2: Democracy and discourses of legitimacy:liberating human agency from liberal legal form
- Chapter 3: Inside the liberal machine
- Chapter 4: Idealism, legalityand reconciliation with external nature
- Chapter 5: Materialism, legitimacyand reconciliation with human nature
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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