Books by Darrow Schecter

Rearticulating critical theory with a contemporary focus, this book investigates how the conditions of democratic statehood have changed at key historical intervals since 1945. It argues that a sociological approach is needed to address conceptual deficits and explain how the mechanisms of democratic statehood can be updated today. -- .

Darrow Schecter explores the most important theoretical and political debates about the relation between reason and legitimacy. >

Beyond Hegemony investigates the authoritarianism and breakdown of those state socialist governments in Russia and elsewhere which claim to put Marx's ideas on democracy and equality into practice. -- .

This book draws on the ideas of a wide range of political thinkers, including Kant, Hegel, Marx, Weber and Arendt, to explore the ideas, meaning and history of civil society. -- .

Focuses on Marx's theories and the diverse struggles for human emancipation that have characterized European and world history since the French Revolution. This book explores the crucial question of how to institutionalize the relation between humanity and nature in a free society of fully humanized individuals.