[Marxism-Thaxis] Parting of the Ways: Reviews (7)

2008-06-23 Thread Ralph Dumain
I'll get back to Sluga and Friedman, but first: May, Todd. On the Very Idea of Continental (Or for that Matter Anglo-American) Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, vol. 33, no. 4, July 2002, pp. 401-25. The author delineates ten differences that characterize these allegedly different traditions and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Parting of the Ways: Reviews (7)

2008-06-23 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph D: Now, point 10 is of some interest to me, unlike the rest of this insufferable banality. The more I read material like this, the more I come to the conclusion how worthless this whole gambit is. Here are some observations: (1) Ultimately, this is not about where we stand and what's

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Parting of the Ways: Reviews (7)

2008-06-23 Thread Charles Brown
Aren't many of the analyticals anti-Hegelians, find dialectic to be nonsense ? Frege, Russell don't deal with dialectic. Whitehead ? Does Wittgenstein ? Without dialectic, they would tend to treat reality as static. As to continentals, does Heidegger deal with dialectic ? Charles This

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ballad for Americans

2008-06-23 Thread Ralph Dumain
I was thinking of this one too as a a specimen of Black Americanism, but couldn't remember the reference. At 12:41 PM 6/23/2008, Charles Brown wrote: Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list

[Marxism-Thaxis] War danger

2008-06-23 Thread Charles Brown
Please forward widely. Dear Friend of United for Peace and Justice, The U.S. House of Representatives is considering a new resolution that could effectively demand a blockade against Iran -- an act that would be widely seen as an act of war and could invite Iranian retaliation, possibly leading

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ballad for Americans

2008-06-23 Thread Charles Brown
In _Here I Stand_ (1958), Robeson says: Yes , for well over 300 years my people have been a part of American life and history. A half-century has passed since W.E.B. Dubois , in his classic _The Souls of Black Folk_ challenged white Americans in these words of poetry and truth: Your country ?

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Hegel's 'Absolute Idealism'

2008-06-23 Thread Ralph Dumain
I always thought Paul Healey was a nut. Several of these people on the Hegel lists are insufferable. At 03:11 PM 6/23/2008, Charles Brown wrote: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/txt/paulh01.htm From: Paul Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hegel's 'Absolute Idealism'..

[Marxism-Thaxis] Parting of the Ways: Reviews (7)

2008-06-23 Thread Charles Brown
Static, I think is another issue distinct from dialectic. CB: Please elaborate. What's your understanding of what Frege brings to logic ? Your words This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. www.surfcontrol.com ___

[Marxism-Thaxis] structuralist linguistics

2008-06-23 Thread Charles Brown
structuralist linguistics CeJ jannuzi at gmail.com That worldwide so many languages have similar-sounding words for babies to say 'mama'. There are NATURAL reasons why babies everywhere say such similar things. Because their physiological and phonological development limits what they can say to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Structural linguistics

2008-06-23 Thread Charles Brown
Chomsky and Halle don't overthrow the basic concept of phoneme, distinctive features, e.g. voiced and unvoiced as a binary opposition, do they ? That makes too much obvious sense. provable by any human speaker. Surely , in English big is differentiated from pig by voiced/unvoiced significant

[Marxism-Thaxis] structural linguistics/ theory of origin of culture

2008-06-23 Thread Charles Brown
To name a few linguistic phenomena worthy of consideration as motivated (not arbitrary): sound symbolisms, like phonomimes, phenomimes, pscyhomimes. I can tell you, for example, the words for 'knock knock' as in knocking on a door, in English are not that different from Japanese (kan-kan). Why the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Parting of the Ways: Reviews (3)

2008-06-23 Thread Charles Brown
It'd be really fine if you took the time to elaborate and articulate the below more precisely, and with historical specific examples Charles For the moment I would like to point out something that is fundamental to Hegel and Marx in different and incompatible formulations. I need to find

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Parting of the Ways: Reviews (3)

2008-06-23 Thread Ralph Dumain
I'm in a rush, so just a few comments for now. Beyond the cataloging of various thinkers as politically left or right, there is the question of long-term trends, or elective affinities between philosophies and political orientations. For example, See Stephen Eric Bronner's indispensable book