EXPRESSIVE TOTALITY?

[Kerry]

On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Martin Spaul wrote:

> A last shot to tack onto all the other totalities - is this an
> aberrant translation of Hegel's 'ethical totality', I think that
> Charles Taylor uses terms like 'expressive unity', etc. when talking
> about Hegel's idea.

In Martin Jay's book MARXISM & TOTALITY: THE ADVENTURE OF A CONCEPT FROM 
LUKACS TO HABERMAS, there are numerous references to expressive totality; 
how it is used by Althusser, Hegel, Luckas and others.  You (the orginal 
poster) may wish to get hold of a copy.

>From a cursory skimming (I picked up the book only a couple of weeks ago) 
Jay seems to argue that "expressive totality", the idea that all of 
societal determinations are the expressive of a single principle, is 
characteristic or at least is part of Western Marxist discourse.

Anyways, Jay's book would  probably be a good place to see not only how 
concepts such as 'expressive totality' exist in Western Marxism, but 
other variations.  Hence, the subtitle ... one presumes :)