George Thomson died some years ago, I can't recall the details. Of cancer, I
think. There are people here who know a lot more than me about George
Thomson. He was Professor of Greek Studies at Brimingham university in the
1950s/1960s and Sohn-Rethel was a kind of mentor, for him and for Moses
Finley; they discussed the emergence of coinage and money in classical
antiquity, and how this influenced what they saw (probably wrongly) as the
simultaneous emergence of classical Greek cosmogonies and philosophy. Much
of this work has had to be greatly modified in light of subsequent
findings. But it remains important. Sohn-Rethel also influence a younger
generation of thinkers including I think, Derek Sayer. The importance of
this current of thought, for this list, is its critque of science, as a
social process and specific way of relating to the object world, to 'Nature'
which is helpful in locating the underlying propensity for of the system
non-linear stepchange. There are rival and complementary theories of course.
But none which focus in the same way on social process.
Mark
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> Subject: Query, Re: [CrashList] excerpt from Alfred Sohn-Rethel:
> Intellectual and ManualLabour
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> George Thomson is mentioned in this post. Is he still alive? I have
> never seen a reference to his death -- and he should be remembered.
>
> Carrol
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