Shane Mage wrote: > I don't quite agree. Marx, I believe, used the term Critique (Kritik) in > an entirely *Kantian* sense, going through the contradictions of political > economy to clarify the rational kernel of its fundamental presuppositions as > Kant did in his three critiques (of Judgment, Practical Reason, and Pure > Reason). Just as Hegel erected the "Philosophical Sciences" on the > underlying basis of the Kantian critiques, so Marx undertook the > (never-to-be-completed) construction of a new Economic Science on the basis > of his accomplished critique.
I think we do agree, since I was using the word "critique" in a non-Kantian way. The folks who emphasize the "critique of political economy" in lieu of actually doing political economy use the word this way, too. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
