Doctor of Philosophy in History, University Rochester, 1974. Student, Ecole Pratique Hautes Etudes, Paris, 1970. Master of Arts, University Rochester, 1968. Jacoby, Russell was born on Apin New York City.īachelor, University Wisconsin, 1967. Mellon Post-doctoral fellow, 1976-1977, National Endowment of the Humanities grantee, 1976, Guggenheim fellow, 1980-1981. Russell Jacoby, American history educator. The author follows the evolution of this minority tradition and its opposition to authoritarian forms of political theory and practice. In the nineteenth century, this Western Marxism already diverged from Russian Marxism in its interpretation of Hegel and its evaluation of Engels' orthodox Marxism. He then turns to a Western alternative that neither succumbed to the spell of success nor obliterated the individual in the name of science. He argues that a cult of success and science drained this Marxism of its critical impulse and that the successes of the Russian and Chinese revolutions encouraged a mechanical and fruitless mimicry. The author begins with a polemical attack on 'conformist' or orthodox Marxism, in which he includes structuralist schools. Observing that for both revolutionaries and capitalists, nothing succeeds like success, Russell Jacoby asks us to reexamine a loser of Marxism: the unorthodox Marxism of Western Europe. (Observing that for both revolutionaries and capitalists. ISBN 9780198749356.Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography.
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