Nietzsche's genealogy of morals has contributed about as much to historical
materialism as my left testicle. (Maybe I should rethink this last
part.) Again, consult my piece:
The Owl of Minerva: The Evolution of German Ideology Critique and Social
Theory from Hegel to Nietzsche: A Sketch
h
I'm not getting the whole argument, but I find Yoshie's argument most
implausible. Superstition is as rampant as ever, and coexists with or
contravenes scientific thinking at will. Japan is hardly an exception, as
Zen coexisted with Japanese fascism, not to mention Shintoism. Materialism
is
It's not. I'm pretty sure I read it when I last took this book out of the
library, but apparently my retention leaves something to be desired. I
remember some remarks about Nietzsche and metaphysics as bad poetry, but
very little.
This reminds me that I need to acquire this book:
Friedman,
nti-Nietzsche remarks are childish. As I have
said there is a lot in to criticize, also to learn
from, but this Nietzsche the inspirer of Nazis and
racists is just stupid, I mean, idiotic, and I m not
using this in the Ralph Dumain "I'm pissed" sense,
it's really dumb and uninfo
This is all a load of shit, but first, I could use some specific references
for Carnap's evaluation of Nietszsche. I've seen stray references to
Nietzsche, but no sustained commentary.
BTW, I don't think Trotsky's 1900 essay on Nietzsche was translated into
English, unless it's happened over
New on my site:
"The New Materialism" by Roy Wood Sellars
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/sellars-newmat.html
For quite understandable historical and cultural reasons, it so happened
that materialism became a "suppressed alternative" in academic philosophy.
Here's one direction America
e us with tools for a social understanding of idealism and
occultism at a deep level. See my notes:
On "The Congress" by Jorge Luis Borges: Observations and Questions by Ralph
Dumain
http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/borges5.html
Finally, in connection with my attempts to figure
Most of this is prototypical fascist garbage that only a French or Yale
philosopher could love. But the picture regarding the Jew is unclear.
Nietzsche clearly indicts the Jews as a defeated people who in revenge
inflicted Xianity on the noble Romans and the rest of the world.
It's not clear
Good advice, but good luck with all that. Trying to do this in the Deep
South would probably be more difficult than turning illiterate Russian
ex-serfs around.
At 04:22 PM 8/18/2006 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
V. I. Lenin:
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All this is rather superficial, however. I think Ernest Gellner nailed the
essentially conservative nature of Wittgenstein's philosophy.
Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy is hardly a notch above Carnap's
dismissal of metaphysics as "bad poetry" or Neurath's
metaphysicophobia. The notio
See my latest blog entry on the book Ibsen and Hitler: The Playwright, the
Plagiarist, and the Plot for the Third Reich by Steven F. Sage and my
encounter with the author:
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Ok, in which chapters, so I can get to the good stuff?
At 08:16 PM 8/7/2006 -0400, Jim Farmelant wrote:
On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:14:09 -0400 Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm stating to download some of these chapters from Frank's last
> book. But
>
I'm stating to download some of these chapters from Frank's last book. But
tell me, does Frank say anything in it he did not already say in Modern
Science and Its Philosophy?
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/frank-MSP/frank00.html
At 03:34 PM 8/7/2006 -0400, Jim Farmelant wrote:
Geor
I'll read and report when I get the chance.
BTW, do you have pub info for Plekhanov's important work on Spinoza? I
gave the ref to an article on Bernstein a few days ago, but if there is
another major essay or more on Spinoza by Plekhanov I'd like to see it. I
have his collected works buried
I didn't know Gary Snyder was such a jerk-off. Shoulda known, though.
Zendubitably.
At 07:57 AM 8/7/2006 -0400, Jim Farmelant wrote:
"Although he claims to be an anarchist, he writes like a Stalinist thug,"
Gary Snyder, the poet and an adherent of deep ecology, said of Mr.
Bookchin in an inter
Volume 51, Number 16 · October 21, 2004
Leo Strauss: The European
By Mark Lilla
I don't know what publication this review comes from, but I can track it
down. This review of several German books on Leo Strauss is most
interesting, esp. reading between the lines. I am immediately possessed by
I don't know how much more time I'll have to touch this up, but anyway
here's the whole essay for you:
Deborin, A. M. "Spinoza's World-View," in: Spinoza in Soviet Philosophy: A
Series of Essays, selected and translated, and with an introduction by
George L. Kline (London: Routledge and Paul,
I just got a notice from the author:
http://karlmarxstudies.org.uk/
For the first time - and in one place - this site gathers academic papers
and book reviews written by Laurence Baronovitch. Most of this work,
written in the 1970s and 1980s, deals with the early intellectual
development of K
Spinoza in Soviet Philosophy: A Series of Essays, selected and translated,
and with an introduction by George L. Kline. London: Routledge and Paul, 1952.
Contents:
Spinoza and Judaism, by D.Rakhmian.
Spinoza and materialism, by L.I.Akselrod (Ortodoks)
Spinozas world-view, by A.M.De´borin.
Spino
I've scanned this 1927 essay by Deborin, but it could take several days to
edit out all the OCR errors. Here's a tease for you, the beginning of the
essay:
A. M. Deborin
Spinoza's World-View
The 21st of February of this year [1927] was the two hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the death o
I also approached the notion of philosophy as being essentially the bosses
philosophy, without actually using the word. I was criticized by a Hegel
scholar for doing so in my programmatic essay:
Hegel & Me
http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/hegelme.html
. . . revealing something of the persp
nder.com, but I'm going to hold out for
cheaper ones.
At 01:38 PM 8/5/2006 -0400, Jerry Monaco wrote:
On 8/5/06, Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Note that Losurdo's book on Hegel has also been translated into
English. You know, Italy produces a lot of interesting stu
know, Italy produces a lot of interesting stuff. It's a
shame that France takes priority in the snob culture pecking order.
At 12:59 PM 8/5/2006 -0400, Jerry Monaco wrote:
On 8/5/06, Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thomas, Peter. "Over-Man and the Commune," New L
Thomas, Peter. "Over-Man and the Commune," New Left Review, new series, no.
31, January-February 2005, pp. 137-144. Review of: Domenico Losurdo,
Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico & Jan Rehmann, Postmoderner
Links-Nietzscheanismus: Deleuze und Foucault; eine Dekonstruktion.
Intro:
Few thinke
Ishay Landa
Nietzsche, the Chinese Workers Friend
New Left Review I/236, July-August 1999
A Spiritual Revolution
Cultural criticism turns ever stronger, as the problem is located ever
deeper within the workers psyche: their suffering is a result of their
participation in the capitalist folly of
Ishay Landa
Nietzsche, the Chinese Workers Friend
New Left Review I/236, July-August 1999
The Disease of Optimism
Nietzsche, the great cultural physician, detects the sickness of
modernity in the spreading of the optimistic illusion that popularizes
humanistic ideals. The great corrupter is, in
Ishay Landa
Nietzsche, the Chinese Workers Friend
New Left Review I/236, July-August 1999
Landa reviews the fancy dancing that the French poststructuralists do to
cover up the textual specificity of Nietzshe's reactionary politics. He
recommends to cut through the verbal fog of Netizsche's in
anticipated
postmodernist carnival of ever-changing outfits and outlooks.
At 10:40 PM 7/30/2006 -0400, Ralph Dumain wrote:
http://www.newleftreview.net/?view=1997
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First off, I owe you an apology. I did not get a chance to read directly
your first post to the list before reading Jim Farmelant's forward which
was somehow framed in a way that ticked me off. Reading your email
directly did not elicit such a confrontational reaction. That having been
said,
eritage might prove to be a suitable
location for an autonomous simian group. Perhaps the Louvre, and its
collections, could be put at the disposal of apes freed from zoos and
research laboratories: the long galleries could be used for sleeping and
recreation, the Jardin des Tuileries for foraging. Who
This is a fascinating story, and of course I agree on specific practical
objectives irrespectively of ideologies. I find the Jay-Z quote an
irritant, but what can one do. But if you'll permit questions not directly
pertaining to the political conjuncture you are in the process of
outlining, I
ith Lectures by Edward W. Said
The Treason of the Intellectuals (La Trahison Des Clercs) by Julien Benda
Contemporary Chinese Philosophy by Chung-ying Cheng
At 03:29 PM 8/2/2006 -0400, Guy Yasko wrote:
On 1 Aug 2006, Ralph Dumain uttered the following:
>
> I am not alone in judging Corn
I didn't remember Douglass being an ordained minister; maybe I'm blocking
out unpleasant information. I guess Fred's intellectual squeeze was
exaggerating:
Letter to Ludwig Feuerbach from Ottilie Assing about Frederick Douglass
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/dougls1.html
Assing--what
Is it little-discussed? It's not exactly a state secret. Of course, this
is the main problem in Hegel: his liberal Protestant demythologization of
Christianity turned into a remythologization of history, which then
required the demythologizing efforts of the Young Hegelians. Hegel's was a
"g
I've not finished marking up this page yet, but here's a preliminary view:
The Owl of Minerva:
The Evolution of German Ideology Critique and Social Theory from Hegel to
Nietzsche:
A Sketch
http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/owl-tutorial.html
My intervention in Washington went over like a lead
Charles, Austin, etc.: the question is not whether to work with Christians,
whether they be ordinary folks on the street or even university
professors. And if intellectuals are afraid of alienating their
constituencies (real or imagined), they should keep their mouths shut
rather than add to t
I don't know what this is all about or why this poster couldn't post
directly to the list.
I am not alone in judging Cornel West a shallow and opportunistic
intellectual. Adolph Reed has famously referred to him as (quoting
approximately from memory) "a hundred miles wide and a half inch
dee
The materialism part is a bit dodgy, though I otherwise agree with Bob
Montgomery. I'm unclear as to the difference between pantheism and
panentheism and I can't swear where to place Spinoza, but he's not a
hard-core atheist materialist like the more radical French materialists and
the materia
Could you give a bibliographical reference (and link) for this piece?
At 12:30 PM 7/31/2006 -0400, robert montgomery wrote:
The spirit of Spinoza
By Cornel West | July 28, 2006
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I've melded my last batch of posts, with some improvements, into another
blog entry, which will also make for ease of reference:
Anti-Nietzsche (5)
http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/blog-culture.html#e29
At 12:31 PM 7/31/2006 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
I got it, and read it. I've been posti
I'm not sure what you mean about Marx and ontology. Whatever interest Marx
has in this--I guess it would be the ontology of social being--is different
from Engels', but what matters here is twofold:
(1) Marx's "ontological" perspective is invested in a historically evolving
metabolic intercha
Interesting. I'm not sure what to say about the practical 'atheism' of the
ruling classes. This doesn't seem quite right except in the modern
period. You know, the most profound understanding of the secularization
and superstition of the modern elite and apspirants to power can be found
in C
It's propaganda, but I agree with it. Now if the spirit of Spinoza could
wash over the USA reenchanting it with the Enlightenment and purging it of
our fundamentalist rednecks and Louis Farrakhan and the dumbass preachers
who support him and turn Cornel himself from a preacher with footnotes to
Sounds familiar. I think he wrote a book on existential themes or
alienation in American literature. He was surprisingly sympathetic--no
party line here. I'm sure I have this book somewhere.
I recall being quite impressed with Finkelstein's critique of Marshall
McLuhan, whom I could not sta
Speaking of stupid and tired, the law has made Justin lose whatever was
left of his mind that analytical philosophy left behind, rendering him
incapable of attentive reading and thinking. Nowhere did anyone claim that
Nietzsche would have approved of the Nazi regime, or that the Nazis were
com
Ransacking my poor brains about all the left journals I've read in the past
15 years, it occurred to me that New Left Review is a possible candidate
for the phantom Nietzsche article I once read. I don't think that's quite
right, but it feels closer than any of the others so far. I have no ide
I've added some items to:
Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography
(Or, Why Marx & Not Nietzsche)
http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/nietzsche-bib1.html
I added books by Y. Yovel and Raymond Williams, and a few journal articles,
including the one article I was able to locate some years ago on Nietzsche
a
I considered adding more on the contemporary appeal of Nietzsche, though
that has been done elsewhere. There's some article I have on the conceits
flattered thereby, but I can't place it, and some of my references
discussed the Nietzsche-based French poststructuralism. One could pose the
quest
I welcome prospective additions to my bibliography, which was partly based
on prior input from these discussion groups:
Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography
(Or, Why Marx & Not Nietzsche)
http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/nietzsche-bib1.html
Selected bibliography on Nietzsche & his influence, race, f
as happened
in fact with Kant, Hegel, and others.
At 02:24 PM 7/29/2006 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
Marx's doctoral dissertation--new edition
Ralph Dumain
. . . So let the good times roll.
Carroll is correct. Speculative and not empirical is correct,
also. Attributing idealism to speculati
. . . So let the good times roll.
Carroll is correct. Speculative and not empirical is correct,
also. Attributing idealism to speculative materialism is an interesting
way to go. This implies that all metaphysics is idealist, perhaps all
ontology, sort of like the logical empiricists claime
Thanks, Jim. I was just going to look this up. It's a terrific
piece. I've been reading up a lot on Spinoza lately. I have one blog
entry on the subject, but there's more where that came from:
My Yiddishe Spinoza
http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/blog-culture.html#e13
At 12:29 PM 7/29/20
Do you find this true of trade unions everywhere or just in the USA? An
old labor organizer from way back when told me that Americans were
backwards in matters of egalitarianism. I think he said that Canadians are
much better.
It would also be interesting, and presumably depressing, to see h
At 12:30 PM 7/28/2006 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
..
Out of 25 workers that died, 13 were white and 12 were black. We held a
rally. Not a single white family showed up. Though the money was for
everybody,
the question of solidarity had not been fought for. The factory united them.
Produ
"Studies in a Dying Culture" BLOG
http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/blog-culture.html
Chinese Philosophy in the West: Globalization Gone Bad: parts 3 & 4
On Aphorisms
Borges, Politics and Ethics,
Rediscovering Isaac Rosenfeld
My Yiddishe Spinoza
Adorno's 'True Thoughts' & the Logic of Apho
THE FIRST WRITINGS OF KARL MARX
ed. Paul Schafer
Paperback: 200 pages Publisher: Ig Publishing (July 1, 2006) Language:
English ISBN: 0977197220
The First Writings of Karl Marx is the only single volume English language
edition of Marx's earliest work, his doctoral dissertation. This edition
I haven't followed events in Russia for some time, but I was intrigued to
see a face-off between Stephen F. Cohen and Garry Kasparov on the little
weasel Charlie Rose's show tonight. What's really interesting is what's
not said about the basis of democracy as what is. I don't know much of
Coh
Sartre Against Stalinism (Berghahn Monographs in French Studies) (Paperback)
by Ian H. Birchall
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1571815422/sr=1-8/qid=1153464464/ref=sr_1_8/103-5565342-4139061?ie=UTF8&s=books
I just learned of this book. Has anybody seen it?
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This is all horseshit. What a shame that "feminism" has become a synonym
for obscurantism. In whatever field feminism enters--i.e. in affairs not
specifically about women or women's liberation--whenever you find a
feminist perspective, you invariably find questionable ideology and
obscurantis
erated except the
one perspective that is needed and gives the lie to all the others.
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Good point. Another is the possible narrowing effect on other counts as
well.
I added a prefatory quote to the blog entries:
I labour upwards into futurity.
William Blake, 1796
[Keynes, 262]
Which suggests the opposite of defeatism. But this inadvertently
illustrate
I am not really part of the blogosphere. I've experimented on the most
primitive level with a blog on a rather esoteric subject:
Emergence Blog
http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/emergence-blog.html
I don't know much about blogware. My blog has minimal structure, minimal
design, and no inter
http://worldebookfair.com/NewAmericanCentury.htm
Empire, empire, read all about it!
Part of World Book E-Fair, free downloads to Aug. 4.
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The Incomplete Projects
Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture
Freedman, Carl
http://www.upne.com/0-8195-6554-7.html
I'm not familiar with this book. What about you? Looks interesting.
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Now on my web site, trying to keep my breakfast down:
"Love Is the Fulfilling of the Law" by Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/HJ-SP1.html
Note my editorial comments there and in my emergence blog:
http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/emergence-blog.html
A HEGEL BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/sefd0/bib/hegel.htm
Andrew Chitty has some terrific bibliographies on Hegel and Marxism. This
one is classified in great detail, including sections on Hegel's philosophy
of nature and mathematics.
There is a mathematician named Alan Paterson
I can't make sense out of any of this post. I don't know what you are
getting at by seeking out references to Leibniz by Marx.
Engels refers to Leibniz at length in Dialectics of Nature. From Marx we
get passing references of no particular consequence. Here's an odd stray
remark:
"The Pru
This is all horseshit.
At 02:42 PM 6/27/2006 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
The neo-cons' favourite philosophy had a distinctly seamy side
by John Gray
New Statesman (June 19 2006)
It is not surprising that Enlightenment thinking has become
fashionable again: in uncertain times, people turn to t
With all these people quoting people quoting people, it's difficult to tell
which one is the moron who prefers his momma, folk wisdom and fringe
crackpots to the scientific method. I'd like to know who this jackass
is. He's probably part of Pacifica radio.
At 06:33 PM 6/23/2006 -0400, Charle
And Brien would be right and Sciabarra wrong. I think the evidence is
unequivocal. There are too many people out there who think that Marx was
just a "philosopher". Usually philosophers think this way.
At 06:20 PM 6/19/2006 -0400, you wrote:
I noticed that in the second edition of Kevin B
ally related to its own
development. The changes in orientation that are societally broad as well
as specifically cognitive must include a challenge to the vacillation
within bourgeois thought between positivism and mysticism.
At 10:04 AM 6/19/2006 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
Ralph Dum
This is the one statement I disagree with. I see no evidence of this at
all. Why not spontaneously fascist, gangsterish, opportunist,
cannonfodderish, passive?
At 05:28 PM 6/17/2006 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Further it is the most poverty stricken sector of the proletariat that is
trul
This little article from The Skeptic magazine is prefaced by a quote from
Cornforth:
The science of religion
By John Warren - posted Thursday, 17 March 2005
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3252
This piece is better than other rather flimsy naturalistic explanations of
religion
f the noted 1959 book WORDS AND THINGS, which
skwered ordinary language philosophy.
At 05:58 PM 6/16/2006 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
Ralph Dumain
I had considered doing so while reading the Wittgenstein chapter, but as
this is a 463-page book, I have my limitations. Nitpicking aside, I woul
Science versus Idealism
In Defence of Philosophy against Positivism and Pragmatism
by Maurice Cornforth
13. Dialectical Materialism
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/cornforth7/SVI-13.html
This is the second longest chapter in the book, second only to chapter 18,
on pragmatism (of which I
Idealism of Action "Philosophy of
American Imperialism," pp. 413-423.
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/cornforth7/SVI-18c.html
At 10:31 AM 6/15/2006 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
Ralph Dumain
I've put one more chapter and one section of another chapter online:
Science versus Ideali
I've put one more chapter and one section of another chapter online:
Science versus Idealism
In Defence of Philosophy against Positivism and Pragmatism
by Maurice Cornforth
16. Positivism in Sociology and Politics
section: Positivism and Sociology
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/cornforth
I don't know what is or is not well known about Cornforth.
This essay accuses Cornforth of distorting a number of ideas, including
Lenin's:
"How to Think" (Sojourner Truth Organization)
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/howtothink.html
At 03:14 AM 6/13/2006 +0530, A. Mani wrote:
Hello,
Please note the correction in the URL for:
Science versus Idealism
In Defence of Philosophy against Positivism and Pragmatism
by Maurice Cornforth
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/cornforth7/SVI-0.html
Note the subdirectory has been changed to cornforth7.
More to come.
Cornforth on Partisanship and Objectivity by Ralph Dumain
http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/cornforth6.html
I have also uploaded the contents, introduction and foreword to the 1962
edition of Science versus Idealism:
Science versus Idealism
In Defence of Philosophy against Positivism and
Again, I'm hoping you can provide the references I requested. Did I also
mention I'd be interested in locating Horkheimer's reference to monads?
Re Marxist work on Leibniz: I am unfamiliar with analyses of Leibniz's
political role. I'm really interested in Marxist analyses of Leibniz's
philo
Thanks for the info.
Please tell me more about Marx's "Leibniz library." I know nothing about it.
Also, do you have a specific reference to Adorno's lectures? There are many
volumes being trasnlated to English of late.
Can you provide bibliographical references for Holz and Elster?
Thanks.
Very interesting. I couild have sworn I saw an ad for your book recently. I
just read TGHE COURTIER AND THE HERETIC, about Leibniz and Spinoza. A terrific
read. Makes Leibniz look like a real douchebag. I also took out my mammoth
edition of Leibniz's philosophical papers and letters (D. Rei
Per Rosa's Anti-Dumain, she does me the honor of citing a post I wrote
following her withdrawal from e-discussion:
http://www.mail-archive.com/marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu/msg02786.html
I marvel again at what a perceptive writer I am.
Rosa also cites me amidst a rebuttal to Rees that has
Digitizing = scanning (page images) + OCR (optical character recognition)
+ editing + formatting (e.g. in HTML).
At 03:49 PM 5/22/2006 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
>7) The most important of Cornforth's works for today is THE OPEN
> > PHILOSOPHY AND THE OPEN SOCIETY (1968).
>
>^^
>CB: In thi
At 09:43 AM 5/22/2006 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
> (1) Cornforth came to doubt Engels' dialectics of nature; see his
> 1980 book
> COMMUNISM AND PHILOSOPHY.
^
CB; "dialectics of nature" the book or the whole idea that nature is
dialectical ? What did he come to doubt about "dialectics of n
I finally secured the missing issue containing two commentaries on
Llorente's article on Cornforth:
Goldstick, Danny, On Marxist Ethics, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 11117
On Reappraising Maurice Cornforth, by Edwin A Roberts, NATURE, SOCIETY
AND THOUGHT, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 11923
The latter a
All interesting material. I strongly suggest reading Adorno's two books on
Kant:
Problems of Moral Philosophy
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
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I haven't read this, but following up on a recent discussion:
Paulus Gerdes, Origins of Geometrical Thought in Human Labor, Nature,
Society, and Thought, vol. 14, no. 4 (2001) 391418
http://webusers.physics.umn.edu/~marquit/gerde144.pdf
And while I'm at it, here is another article:
Robert
This web page is still in the developmental stage, but here is my first
version, ready to go on the 51st anniversary of Einstein's death (no
connection):
Marx and Marxism Web Guide
http://www.autodidactproject.org/guidmarx.html
I've asked for assistance before, to no avail. This time, if you
terary style, with a rebellion
against rigidity and classicism, with a particular configuration governing
the rebellion and the nature of what it rebelled against.
(to be continued)
At 04:20 AM 12/4/2005 -0500, Ralph Dumain wrote:
>ALAIN BADIOU
>THE ADVENTURE OF FRENCH PHILOSOPHY
>htt
ALAIN BADIOU
THE ADVENTURE OF FRENCH PHILOSOPHY
http://newleftreview.co.uk/Issue35.asp?Article=04
I'm going to defer addressing the questions I posed last time, and pick up
with the section "With and against Freud."
BADIOU: "At stake, finally, in this invention of a new writing, is the
enunciati
This is all quite true, but there's more. Did I send to this list part one
of my review of Badiou's article on French philosophy in NEW LEFT REVIEW?
The star system in France also relates to its highly centralized cultural
system. The concept of cultural capital now in vogue could never have
Not much to say, just commemorating Paul Robeson's birthday.
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Thanks for the scientific clarification. While all this helps, I note
nevertheless a few key passages:
But, frankly, I think his politics are irrelevant. He was purposely
provocative in his original book. And since
then he has done little to limit the ideological consequences of his view.
Un
scientists and evidently philosophers as well are once they step
outside of a narrow strip of expertise. They also show themselves
ill-equipped to grapple with the social determinants of the religious
superstitions they combat.
At 12:48 PM 3/28/2006 -0500, Ralph Dumain wrote:
THE SELFISH GENE
At 05:47 PM 3/28/2006 -0500, Charles Brown wrote:
CB: Marxism is fundamentally, before it gets to classes, concerned with
human material survival.
How can there be any distinction, unless you mean before there is class
society, historically there were classless subsistence societies? I don't
Not to distract you from your sparring, but I don't see Gorvachev having
much of a conceptual apparatus at all. What you have are general
humanitarian notions--not a terrible thing to have--left in the wake of the
collapse of Marxism-Leninism, but no substantive linkage to a systematic
concept
March 23, 2006
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THE THIRD CULTURE
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I never bought into Gorbachev for a second, though he doesn't appear to be
the scumbag Yeltsin is. But there is something pathetic in Gorbachev's
pronouncements, something I suspect is more systemic than just merely
bribery. It's embodied in the curious dichotomy between familial peasant
valu
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