Abstract
Dick Howard rereads the Marxist tradition to find a critical theory of democratic politics. Marx's method of immanent critique helps us to understand and pursue democracy. Democracy, for Howard, is an open-ended politics demanding philosophical judgment about the values that organize society, and it poses a challenge to any existing order—even a democratic order. The contrasts between French and American political history suggest the value of a “republican democracy” in which multiple representative institutions continually challenge each other. Howard defends the autonomy of politics, and presents democratic politics as the mediator between philosophy and the world. A tension remains in Howard's account between the indeterminacy of democracy and the demands of political mobilization.
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