Ebook: The Politics of Historical Vision: Marx, Foucault, Habermas

Providing an important contribution to current controversies regarding history, social theory,politics, and the Foucaultn-Habermas debates, this work offers a detailed comparison of the transformative uses of history in Foucault and Habermas, using Marx as a modernist contrast. The book clearly illustrates the advantages and disadvantages of each thinker's theory for the productive analysis of history and society, relating the work of each to current debates over modern and postmodern theory.