Ralph wrote: "Some time ago I wrote a primer on the history of ideology critique and social theory for a bunch of local highly educated but clueless philosophy yokels (educated in analytical philosophy of course, making them incapable of understanding European social theory or getting their heads unstuck from their assholes). In particular I argued that Nietzsche represents a regression rather than an advance in social theory. I'll have to put this stuff together and make a web page out of it."
Phil Walden replies: Please do! I'm sure there are a large number of embattled Marxists out there who, like me, would benefit from such a web page by you. I have a great deal of agreement with what you wrote in your previous post where this quote (above) appears, and I'm also conscious that I don't know enough about Nietzsche. As an aside, in order to differentiate Marx from Nietzsche I think it might also be possible to bring in the idea that Marx was interested in ontology whereas Nietzsche wasn't (Bhaskar -largely implicitly - argues this in his books before his spiritual turn, and I think he would still argue it). By "ontology" Bhaskar, of course, means something very different from Heidegger's fundamental ontology, the latter being a rather forced, 'poetic', attempt to ignore social processes in the name of an abstract aristocratic vision. _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
