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Many of the leading thinkers on dialectics in the Marxian tradition have collaborated here to put forward and debate challenging new perspectives on the nature and importance of dialectics. The issues dealt with range from the philosophical consideration of the precise nature of dialectical reasoning, to dialectics and economic theory, and to more concrete concerns such as how dialectics can help us think about globalization, freedom, inflation and subjectivity.
The purpose of this work is to apply Hegelian dialectics to political economy. I will attempt to show that the application of this way of thinking allows us to understand the highly complex phenomenon that is the capitalist mode of production in a way which is not possible using static positivist thinking. There are many aspects to dialectical thinking, but crucial to this study of political economy will be that aspect of dialectics which emphasises Hegel's distinction between fundamental processes, or what could be called the essential relationships concealed below surface appearances, and those processes which are more immediately observable empirical "facts". As so little work is available on the subject of dialectics I begin, in chapter one, with a study of dialectical thinking which emphasises its ancient beginnings. The point is made that dialectics, with its insistence on change and totality, long predates the static categorisation of the world by Aristotle which is the basis of positivist thinking. It is clear that textbooks on political economy implicitly assume either a dualist separation of humanity and nature, or a naturalistic reductionism which states that ultimately the study of social relations can be reduced to the study of physics. Therefore the second chapter involves a critical examination of a number of positivist assumptions, such as the dualistic separation of nature and society and naturalistic reductionism. I will also examine natural science and technology in this second chapter, and in this context it will be argued that whilst humans are the highest manifestation of nature, we remain organically linked to all of nature.......
Robert Albritton offers the most authoritative reassessment of Marxist political economy since Althusser. Original reinterpretations of thinkers including Hegel, Weber, Althusser, Derrida and Adorno cast new light on heated battles between Hegelian dialectics and deconstructivist criticism. The book makes accessible the sometimes daunting thought associated with both dialectics and deconstruction drawing upon insights from philosophy, sociology, political science and critical theory. Finding a non-essentialist way of using the immense cognitive power of dialectics - accepting a limited deconstruction but challenging further deconstructionist directions - represents a major breakthrough for political economy.
Many of the leading thinkers on dialectics in the Marxian tradition have collaborated here to put forward and debate challenging new perspectives on the nature and importance of dialectics. The issues dealt with range from the philosophical consideration of the precise nature of dialectical reasoning, to dialectics and economic theory, and to more concrete concerns such as how dialectics can help us think about globalization, freedom, inflation and subjectivity.
This book demonstrates how Hegel's dialectic can be used in empirical research, and shows how one can do dialectical research in economics. It also shows how one can use dialectical thinking to interpret some personal or social or political problem and devise a possible solution.
Friedrich Engels' masterly application of the philosophy of Marxism to questions of science and nature. As Engels himself pointed out, nature furnishes us with countless proofs of the truth of dialectics.
A scholarly exploration of Marx's thought without any favorable or critical ideological agendas, this book opposes the compartmentalization of Marx's thought into various competing doctrines, such as historical materialism, dialectical materialism, and different forms of economic determinism.
Introduction.--Dialectics.--Basic forms of motion.--The measure of motion--work.--Heat.--Electricity.--Dialectics of nature--notes.--Tidal friction, Kant and Thomson-Tait on the rotation of the earth and lunar attraction.--The part played by labour in the transition from ape to man.--Natural science and the spirit world [from a manuscript of Engels probably written in 1878, and first published in the "Illustrierter neue welt-kalender fèur das jahr 1898"]--Appendices: I. Notes to Anti-Dèuhring, hitherto unpublished in English. II. Source references (p. 329-370).--Bibliography (p. 371-375)--Index.
For a century now Marxists have been searching for a 'rational kernel' of Hegelian 'dialectics' inside the 'mystical shell' of the Hegelian system. As against this entire tradition, Rosenthal insists that Hegelian philosophy is mysticism all the way through. He argues that Marx's supposed `dialectic method' is simply a myth propagated by academics and proposes the provocative thesis that it is not, after all, Hegel's 'method' of which Marx made use in Capital but rather precisely Hegel's mysticism. The role of money in Marx and Hegel is examined in detail.