Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to HabermasBook
by Martin Jay
Who uses, recommends or left Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to Habermas, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
Statistics professor at Carnegie Mellon University who writes the long-running blog Three-Toed Sloth and the Bactra Review of books.
mixed
I nonetheless found this book somewhat disappointing, because Jay seemed content to expound the authors he covers in more or less their own terms, rather than subjecting them to anything like actual epistemological or methodological criticism.
His monthly "Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur" post — the books he read that month and feels he can recommend.
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