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Marxism List Participants, Marx wrote, in 1858, to Engels: "I am, by the way, discovering some nice arguments. E.g. I have completely demolished the theory of profit as hitherto propounded. What was of great use to me as regards method of treatment was Hegel’s Logic at which I had taken another look by mere accident, Freiligrath having found and made me a present of several volumes of Hegel, originally the property of Bakunin. If ever the time comes when such work is again possible, I should very much like to write 2 or 3 sheets making accessible to the common reader the rational aspect of the method which Hegel not only discovered but also mystified." [ _Marx to Engels. 16 January 1858_ (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1858/letters/58_01_16.htm) ] Marx wrote again, in 1868, that he wished to write a book on dialectics, stating that "the true laws of dialectics are to be found already in Hegel, in a mystic form, however. The problem is to divest them of this form." [Marx to Dietzgen, 09 May 1868]. Marx wrote, yet again, in 1875, seven years later, and eight years before his death, in 1883, that once he had finished with the 'Economics', he intended to write on the subject of dialectics [Marx to Dietzgen, Dec. 1875]. In the event, Marx did not live to write his "Dialectics". However, at long last, a collective author, "F.E.D." [Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica], may have taken the first giant step toward filling the gap that Marx's early demise, and Engel's incomplete "Dialectics of Nature" manuscript, left open ever since. A new book has just been released by Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.], entitled -- A Dialectical "Theory of Everything" -- Meta-Genealogies of the Universe and of Its Sub-Universes: A Graphical Manifesto. -- see: _http://www.adventures-in-dialectics.org/Adventures-In-Dialectics/Adventures -In-Dialectics-entry.htm_ (http://www.adventures-in-dialectics.org/Adventures-In-Dialectics/Adventures-In-Dialectics-entry.htm) I could be wrong on this one, of course, but I think it may accomplish, for Platonian, Hegelian, and [especially] Marxian Dialectic, +, at long last, what Boole did for Aristotelian syllogistic, +, formal logic with his 1847 "The Mathematical Analysis of Logic", and with his 1854 "Investigation of the Laws of Thought"! Here's the text from the front and back "flaps" of the "dust cover" jacket [modified for this list's typography] -- "A Dialectical Theory of Everything — Meta-Genealogies of the Universe and of Its Sub-Universes: A Graphical Manifesto. Volume 0: Foundations [Edition 0 – December 2010, from F.E.D. Press] This initial volume, Volume 0, sets forth the foundations of F.E.D.'s dialectical-mathematical "model of everything". Synthesizing ancient themes of dialectic, "autokinesis", and 'self-refluxivity' ['karmicity'], with modern themes of logical and set-theoretical paradox as "self-reflexivity", and of integro-differential equation "nonlinearity", evoked via both occidental and oriental sources from antiquity, and via modern developments in natural/social science, and in mathematics, this initial volume lays out foundations for a unified theory of dialectic. Foundations presented include a unification of the traditions of Platonian and Hegelian dialectic, and the discovery, for the first time in human history, of a rich and versatile 'mathematics of dialectic'. This new 'mathematics of dialectic' is utilized to derive a seventeen-symbol equation, which models, qualitatively [via ontological categories], the dialectical self-evolutions,and 'self-meta-evolutions', of our "kosmos" as a totality, which also predicts a next major self-development of this "kosmos" , and which summarizes the dialectical "theory of everything" that gives this work its title. A dialectical, 'ideo-ontological' categorial progression of systems of generally 'qualo-quantitative', dialectical arithmetics, are modeled, using the second system in that progression, its first explicitly dialectical system, starting from "Natural Numbers", or N, arithmetic, as purely-quantitative [implicitly-dialectical] first system. The second system is a 'purely-qualitative' [purely ontological], "non-standard model" of N arithmetic [i.e., the first four, "first order" Peano Postulates hold for this system as well as for the N system], with a 'contra-Boolean' algebra, founded upon a hitherto-unnoticed, strong negation of Boole's "Fundamental Law of [formal-logical] Thought". Volume 1: Geneses [forthcoming, from F.E.D. Press] Volume 1 recounts the genesis of the new dialectical mathematics in detail. Volume 2: Dialectical 'Meta-Models' of the 'Human Phenome' [forthcoming, from F.E.D. Press] Volume 2 presents 'psycho-historical dialectical meta-models' , expressed via the new dialectical mathematics, which zoom-in on human-social constructions, including a 'meta-model' of the genesis of written language, a 'meta-model' of the development of ancient Mediterranean philosophy, and a 'meta-model' of the development of the standard arithmetics, starting from the N arithmetic as "arche'". Volume 3: The Dialectic of Nature [forthcoming, from F.E.D. Press] Volume 3 explores 'self-meta-evolutions' of human society, modeled via the new dialectical mathematics, as processes of later natural history, including those of the human-social relations, and of the human-social forces, of human-societal self-reproduction. It also addresses the parallel development of related human thought-modes, including an historical-dialectical mathematical 'meta-model' of the 'dialectic of the dialectic itself'." Regards, Miguel ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
