Negativity and democracy in the critical theory tradition : dialectics from Karl Marx to open Marxism / Vasilis Grollios.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Marx and Engels's critique of democracy : the materialist character of their concept of autonomy -- Dialectics and the transition to socialism in late F. Engels's philosophy of history : freeing Marx from the "withering away of the state" theory -- Max Horkheimer's dialectics rehabilitated : how Horkheimer's "open marxism" cracks capitalism -- Dialectics and democracy in Georg Lukacs' Marxism -- False social totality and the ineffable integrity in T. Adorno's negative dialectics : the critical theorist and the challenges of the 21st century -- Determinate negation of the one-dimensional society : how Herbert Marcuse's great refusal cracks capitalism -- Finding hope in the nihilism of bourgeois life : Ernst Bloch's open Marxism reconsidered -- The descendants of negative dialectics : dialectics and democracy in open Marxism.