Dick Howard Livres

Redécouverte de la dimension philosophique de la pensée politique de Karl Marx.

For the eight hundredth anniversary of the Magna Carta, the University of Virginia Press presents the first paperback edition of The Road from Runnymede by A. E. Dick Howard, originally published in 1968. In this volume, Howard explores the ways in which Magna Carta's concepts, most notably due process, have been absorbed and put into practice by English and especially American society. He goes on to show how the idea of constitutional government evolved in America, moving beyond the foundations laid by Magna Carta to adapt itself to the new republic's needs.

Exploring the evolution of modern politics in light of the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe, Dick Howard delves into historical issues raised by the French and American Revolutions. He critiques philosophical approaches to contemporary political challenges and applies his theories to current political situations in Eastern Europe, the European Union, and the United States. This collection of essays, many newly translated into English, serves as a valuable resource for philosophers, sociologists, and political scientists alike.

This book explores the relationship between "politics" and "antipolitics," linking open inquiry and plural democracy with ideology and certainties. It traces the New Left's emergence in the 1960s, reflects on the fall of the Berlin Wall, and examines the impact of terrorism post-9/11, advocating for democracy amid rising antipolitics.

The Marxian Legacy, first published in 1977 and released in a second edition in 1988, was and remains distinct in its view of Marxian theory as 'critique, ' aware of its own origins and limitations and self-conscious about its own historical rootedness in changing social and political conditions. This new and fully revised third edition retains the original synthesis of the divergent traditions of German, critical, and French Marxisms into a living Marxian legacy that changes and reconceptualizes itself, while also providing a new critical introduction and concluding chapter. Such a re-evaluation of the Marxian legacy, which was urgent in the 1970s when the United States was caught up in imperial wars and domestic as well as racial conflict, remains relevant today when—as was the case nearly half a century ago—Marx’s legacy has largely been forgotten and yet remains as a symbol of radical thinking that could inspire the new movements. The Marxian Legacy, 3rd Edition retains the freshness of discovery from those times while fully updating the text for our contemporary moment, and adding two features: a philosophical closure; and, a perspective on what was possible then, and what remains to be done today.