At 19:08 5/06/98 -0400, Mat Forstater wrote: >Louis- > >For some time I have wondered whatever happened to the movement to >develop a marxist phenomenology. Gurwitsch was a disciple of Schutz, and >attempts were even made to synthesize Marx and Schutz. But there were >other more obvious links. My gut feeling was that possibly many who >would have been attracted to working on such a project instead got >sidetracked into "postmodern" stuff, here used sloppily as a catch-all for >post-structuralism, deconstruction, etc. Then I also recall hearing there >was some infighting among those involved in the project (was this the >Telos group mentioned before on one of these lists?). Anyway, if you or >anyone else knows, or have thoughts on the importance/relevance of a >maxian phenomenology, I would be interested in hearing about it. Aslo, if >anyone is still working along these lines. ___________ Karl Kosik's *Dialectics of the Concrete: a Study on problem of Man and World* is a good Phenomenological Marxist work. Also Merleau-Ponty has been quite influential--Althusser regarded him very highly. Cheers, ajit sinha
