1st Edition

The Longing for Total Revolution Reconsidered Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity

Edited By Jeffrey Friedman Copyright 2023
134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

In The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche (1986), the eminent intellectual historian and political theorist Bernard Yack offered a sweeping reinterpretation of modern thought. Yack argued that Rousseau prompted a line of philosophy that continued through Kant, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, which viewed the essential spirit of... Read more
Introduction: The Longing for Total Revolution as Critical but Ideational Genealogy 
Jeffrey Friedman 
1. The Theological Origins and Underpinning of the Longing for Total Revolution 
Michael Allen Gillespie 
2. Is Marx’s Thought on Freedom Contradictory? 
Jan Kandiyali 
3. Left- Kantian Perfectionism 
Douglas Moggach 
4. Reading Yack While Pondering the Origins of Totalitarianism 
David D. Roberts 
5. Longing for Total Dichotomies 
Leslie Paul Thiele 
6. Revisiting The Longing for Total Revolution 
Bernard Yack 

Biography

Jeffrey Friedman, the Editor of Critical Review, is Visiting Scholar in the Social Studies program at Harvard University, USA. He has taught political theory at Barnard College, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Yale University, and is the author of Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy (2019).