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gIntroduction:|tThe topography of Western Marxism --|tThe discourse of totality before Western Marxism --|tGeorg Lukács and the origins of the Western Marxism paradigm -- |tThe revolutionary historicism of Karl Korsch --|tThe two holisms of Antonio Gramsci --|tErnst Bloch and the extension of Marxist holism to nature --|tMax Horkheimer and the retreat from Hegelian Marxism --|tAnamnestic totalization: memory in the thought of Herbert Marcuse -- |tTheodor W. Adorno and the collapse of the Lukácsian concept of totality --|tHenri Lefebvre, the surrealists and the reception of Hegelian Marxism in France -- |tTotality and Marxist aesthetics: the case of Lucien Goldmann --|tFrom totality to totalization: the existentialist Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre -- |tPhenomenological Marxism: the ambiguities of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's holism --|tLouis Althusser and the structuralist reading of Marx --|tScientific Marxism in postwar Italy: Galvano Della Volpe and Lucio Colletti --|tJürgen Habermas and the reconstruction of Marxist holism --|gEpilogue:|tThe challenge of post-war structuralism