Saxton's formulation is misleading. This statement, though based on a
famous quote, is false:
Marx and Engels themselves had chosen to make criticism of religion the
premise
for their project in revolutionary political economy
They did no such a thing, nor did they make atheism the
Most of this is pretty good, but I'm suspicious of where it's going.
On the question of deduction vs induction:
Did Hobsbawm say deduction? He did. Marx and Engels always insisted on
their socialist theory as scientific, rather than Christian or utopian.
Science, however (at least as
Excellent.
Question though:
A Weberian image of this apparatus would look
like a seesaw with the socialist workers on one end and religious workers at
the other.
So were religious workers conservative? Conservative workers would be
religious, I think, necessarily, but the inverse?
The
Note how full of shit all these French intellectuals
are. Adorno/Horkheimer is flawed, although De Sade is an Enlightenment
figure. And these feminists are full of crap too.
I read all this stuff when I was in high school. Sade's porn is boring,
but his philosophy is interesting, if not
The feminists you cite. But of course there are many others who are full
of crap, like Sandra Harding, whom I had the displeasure of sitting next to
a couple weeks ago.
De Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille, BTW. And freed by the Revolution.
De Sade is a curious representative of the dark
This is most interesting. It extends our knowledge base of how much the
CIA actually intervened in cultural matters. (The FBI did the same
domestically.) Of course, this also shows what vile shits the Soviets were.
BTW, I thougth the famed movie version of DR. ZHIVAGO was a piece of
shit.
:
Ralph Dumain
This is most interesting. It extends our knowledge base of how much the
CIA actually intervened in cultural matters. (The FBI did the same
domestically.) Of course, this also shows what vile shits the Soviets were.
BTW, I thougth the famed movie version of DR. ZHIVAGO was a piece
You must have seen that documentary on Julian on PBS the other
night. Wasn't that a trip? I thought I knew my black history, but I never
heard of this guy. Maybe Edward Everett Just is next?
At 02:31 PM 2/9/2007 -0500, Charles Brown wrote:
Percy Lavon
I misremembered his first name:
Ernest Everett Just
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Everett_Just
I think he was an embryologist. A building is named after him at Howard U.
A bio, Black Apollo of Science,
was written about him in the '80s by Kenneth Manning, whom I saw at a
conference in
This is not very informative about Adorno's ideas or politics. Even the
detailed snippet about Adorno's handling of student protest doesn't
necessarily tell the whole story.
At 09:36 AM 2/10/2007 -0500, Charles Brown wrote:
Critique of Frankfurters
[Marxism] Theodor Adorno:
For various purposes I've found it necessary to group certain
materials. See my web pages:
Engels on the British Ideology: Empiricism, Agnosticism, Shamefaced
Materialism
http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/engels-UK1.html
Engels ( Borges) on Carlyle
I cannot respond to the policies of MIA, but my guess is there is no real
political issue at stake here. The material that appears on MIA is likely
determined by (1) volunteers (who decide to take on projects of interest),
(2) concerns over copyright violations.
At 08:36 PM 2/18/2007 +0100,
For a defense of Wittgenstein on Frazer against Gellner's charges, see:
Uschanov, T. P. The Strange Death of Ordinary Language Philosophy. 2001.
http://www.helsinki.fi/%7Etuschano/writings/strange/
I remain unconvinced of Wittgenstein's worth.
At 09:13 AM 2/20/2007 -0500, Charles Brown wrote:
And do you actually believe this shit?
At 04:23 PM 3/1/2007 -0500, Charles Brown wrote:
Premier says promoting fairness and social justice is a major task
GOV.cn
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
While developing productive forces and immensely increasing material wealth,
China needs to
This is hilarious! Thanks for the laugh.
At 09:51 AM 4/1/2007 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
Timothy Mason's Site
Chris Knight's Blood Relations
Evolution or Revolution?
A review of Chris Knight's 'Blood Relations
2000
Timothy Mason (cv)
http://www.timothyjpmason.com/WebPages/Pics/Transfer.htm
it's been a number of years since I've seen Drury in action. here the
conclusions she draws from the struggle between the progressive
Enlightenment and from the (proto-) fascist Counter-Enlightenment, in the
light of Fukyomama's recantation, are weak, even spineless.
At 03:10 PM 4/11/2007
Clearly senility is setting in. But you are an admirer of Cornel West, as
I recall. You probably like Michael Dyson even better.
At 12:12 AM 4/17/2007 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The white boyz understand the words they use and they greet each other and
say my nigga, . . . every Marxist
[Sequel. On Imus Virginia Tech]
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There are a number of general issues involved here, including:
(1) the overwhelming power of corporate controlled imagery combined with a
concealment of what goes on behind the scenes, the reality underlying
appearances;
(2) the realization
This is all very interesting, but the notion that Jews were accepted
earlier than the Italians strikes me as bizarre, unless I have mistaken
your meaning.
At 12:23 AM 4/27/2007 +0900, CeJ wrote:
Unlike other European immigrants who struggled initially to become white
in America, such as the
Howard's piece is stupid and naive, as are the respondents. The idea of
honest conservatives dissociating themselves from Rush belongs to comic
science fiction.
I know nothing about Imus, and whether he is a real political propagandist
or not.
Limbaugh, however, is seriously a right-wing
Whoever this Haines Brown is, he is an idiot. MIA does have sectarian
tendencies, which I have criticized, which stem from its Trotskyist
background. These biases lie mainly in (a) its classification of marxist
authors, (b) its definitions and study guides to Marxist materials. Even
its new
For some reason, public TV in DC is now showing West Side Story. I just
tuned in somewhere in the middle in which the Puerto Ricans are debating
the merits of New York vs. Puerto Rico. And now some white guy has the
hots for Maria.
Perhaps more later. I'm sure when I was younger some of the
Several years ago I was told the generic name was Mycoxafailin, so I
consider that authoritative. The person who told me may have been penile,
but I still trust my source.
At 04:42 PM 5/22/2007 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
Pharmacology
In Pharmacology, all drugs have two names, a trade name
You should have reported abuse.
At 01:14 PM 5/24/2007 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
Can someone explain the difference between Marxism, communism and socialism
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these are forms of fascism, how
As much as I hate to admit it, I'm finding Cornel West's THE ETHICAL
DIMENSIONS OF MARXIST THOUGHT a worthwhile read. A critique of this work
must fall into two parts, in reference to:
(a) West's preface written for the 1991 publication of this book,
(b) the work itself, written in the late
In the late '70s, Cornel West is both a skilled analyst and a sly little
weasel. It's a shame only the weasel survived.
West is most impressed by the 6th and 7th thesis on Feuerbach.
quote:
---
These two theses constitute Marx's celebrated rejection of the doctrine of
Finally, West analyzes Marx's fully developed radical historicism in THE
GERMAN IDEOLOGY. In the middle of this he takes a detour to summarize Max
Stirner's radical psychologism in THE EGO AND HIS OWN as it marks a crucial
step in the evolution of Left Hegelian thought and the last hurdle Marx
It is worthwhile quoting the introductory to chapter 4 in full:
quote:
The major Marxist approaches to ethics bear the historicist stamp. They
deny the existence of an Archimedian point from which to adjudicate rival
ethical judgments, they accent the fleeting character of
Continuing chapter 4, on Engels: West first offers a few quotes from
_Anti-Duhring_ documenting Engels' belief that there is historical progress
in morality. I will only quote a fraction of one of these quotes, which I
think is directly relevant to West's subsequent assertions
quote from
This is mostly nonsense, but since we are on the topic of Baldwin, here are
two pieces I just wrote:
James Baldwin Revisited (1): Prolegomena
http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/baldwin1.html
James Baldwin Revisited (2): Go Tell It on the Mountain
and cultural loyalties, was
particularly uncomfortable .
. .
Ralph the article CORNEL WEST'S EVASION OF PHILOSOPHY, OR, RICHARD WRIGHT'S
REVENGE
by Ralph Dumain, claims to be a [REVIEW OF: West, Cornel. Philosophy and
the Afro-American experience, The Philosophical Forum, vol. 9, nos. 2-3,
winter-spring
To recap what we have so far: Marx has been mischaracterized as a radical
historicist. He rejected the notion of morality altogether. Note however
that Marx also asserted that Right can rise no higher than the capacities
of any society allows. Hence no assertions about morality can be
made.
Briefly, as I am overcommitted already. . . Beware Robinson's BLACK
MARXISM: as far as I'm concerned, it's rubbish. The interview you reproduce
contains a number of ingredients and some interesting ideas worth pursuing.
But there are also some points I find debatable.
(1) The Black Radical
that Marx is a positivist. Of course, this also hangs on the
definition of 'science', which in German historically does not have the
restricted scope of the English term.
At 06:58 AM 6/9/2007 -0400, Jim Farmelant wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:09:54 -0400 Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
It's only the 'else' that really matters in a productive way, as the
concoction of such an intellectual 'tradition' as an actual entity is where
the trouble lies. And his academic standing matters a great deal, as the
politics of academic departments has a lot to do with the way careers are
The fact that Frege and Husserl are seen as belonging to entirely different
worlds relates to the peculiar conditions that created this artificial
concept known as continental philosophy.
As for scientists, naturally, there are only a small percentage who are
philosophically inclined and only
At 03:13 PM 6/9/2007 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(Three pages of discussion. The Black Marxism thing begins under
Section III) Is there a black radical tradition in American society? Did
there develop or emerge a Marxist current within this black tradition?
Did there develop amongst the
I am tied up with other matters now, and I've basically blown my wad on the
previous discussion, but I just stumbled onto this piece:
Excerpts
A Reconsideration of the Career of James Baldwin
Henry Louis Gates' The fire last time--
Source: New Republic June 1, 1992 Vol. 206 Issue 22, p. 37, 6
I'm still trying to catch up, and doing a million things at once.
The problem is, I can't remember the conversation. I don't think there's
any written trace of it; I believe it was a verbal conversation. It has to
do with the implications of rational = actual/real, whether this notion is
I don't know if the Robinsonade thing pervades all of this epistemoloigcal
heritage, offhand, though certainly one can find this presupposition in modern
philosophy since Descartes.
I have not been sufficiently precise in my treatment of positivism as relates
to Kautsky. Maybe I will follow
Will check it out when I get the chance.
Note also that the Poznan school links marx with Galileo. While this has a
relation to analytical philosophy, I think, I would not call this positivist at
all. But another time . . .
I am still out of commission, though hopefully I will have a new
I hope to have my monitor problem solved within the next 4 days.
When I saw Rampersad in person, he did have some things to say about Ellison's
procrastination, which probably involves his perfectionism and concern over his
status as much as it does the fire that destroyed his ms. While I was
But aside from the citation from TS Eliot, what specifically did Ellison admire
about Eliot? Surely not Eliot's religion or politics. People have different
reasons for admiring Eliot, as a poet if nothing else. (CLR James once said
that Eliot is a great poet who reminds him just what he
Forgot to mention, I have this big fat book:
The politics of method in the human sciences : positivism and its
epistemological others / George Steinmetz, editor.
Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
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Forgot to mention, I have this big fat book:
The politics of method in the human sciences : positivism and its
epistemological others / George Steinmetz, editor.
Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
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Das Kapital: A novel of love and money markets
by Viken Berberian
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Chapter 6 is on Lukacs, particularly HISTORY AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS
and particularly the essay on reification. First West summarizes
Hegel's notion of dialectic. Then he shows how Lukacs' Marxian
dialectic differs, and emphasizes that it applies only to history and
society, not nature.
West Marxism (8) Ralph Dumain Chapter 6
is on Lukacs, particularly HISTORY AND CLASS ONSCIOUSNESS
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This is just stupid, even more stupid than the Trotskyist recitations
of dialectics.
At 08:43 PM 7/12/2007, Jim Farmelant wrote:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosa.l/Marxism_2007.htm
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This is all pretty juvenile leftism. Then again, it's not Kevin Trudeau.
The entire history of philosophy to Rosa is a scheme, a ruse, duplicity.
Novack was indeed a hack.
Anything of substance in this essay comes down to the criticism of
Lenin. I don't have time for this but if anyone cares
And where can we find this article or book? A complete citation is
needed first of all.
And in any case, what can hermeneutics or philosophy for that matter
tell us about the future of socialism?
At 10:50 PM 7/22/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For more theoretics, read Marx's philosophy as
I haven't checked the links, but am I Mr. D?
You know, this is a sad case of Trotskyist obsessive-compulsive
behavior, i.e. of a Trot consumed by his quarrels with other Trots,
and to a lesser extent his competitors among other
Marxist-Leninists. It's pathetic.
It's true that diamat--at
Every year I commemorate the days Lisa was born and died.
In Memoriam:
Lisa Rogers
25 August 1961 - 15 September 1996
Co-Moderator of Spoons Marxism lists (mid-'90s, maybe including
PS: I wouldn't fuck Rosa with Lou Proyect's gopher dick.
At 10:46 PM 8/29/2007, Ralph Dumain wrote:
I am so touched.
A whole page, just for me. It's the Trot version of Krazy Kat.
Maybe I should revive my Dead Trotsky Jokes after a decade. Does
your head have a hard-on or is that an ice-pick
In addition to my own study guide and materials provided on my web
site, another important project, aiming at indiscriminate
comprehensiveness, is this invaluable resource:
http://leninist.biz/
Note that this is a comprehensive bibliography in progress of
relevant Marxist literature in
Wise, Rick B. A.
Religion Marx.
Austin, TX: American Atheist Press, 1988.
xv, 268 p.
I must have purchased this book within a few years of its
publication. I even remember Madelyn O'Hair talking about it and
mentioning the dialectic on some video of some American Atheists
Conference program
I don't have the Raine compilation. Does it differ significantly
from ON RELIGION published both by Progress Publishers and Niebuhr
via an American publisher?
I don't know what to make of Marx, Critical Theory, And Religion: A
Critique of Rational Choice just from the description.
Gary North
I'm familiar with the Aptheker title and most likely read at least
parts of it decades ago. Can't say much about this except this sort
of dialogue doesn't do much for me. It can of course be useful to
delineate what separates Marxist method or world view from even the
most allegedly
Great reading list. Thanks. Naturally, there must have been much
progress in Marxist as well as anthropological and sociological
analysis of religion since Marx's time.
Another question is how Marxology in relation to religion--i.e.
analysis of Marx's views on religion--has progressed.
Expositions of Marxism have tended to limit treating Feuerbach as a
thinker in his own right, but not all scholars, Marxist and
non-Marxist, have imposed such limitations.
I don't know whether Marx or Kierkegaard even knew of one another's
existence, so I don't know what is to be said on that
A HELLO TO ENGELS? by G.W. SMITH
Review: Christopher J. Arthur (ed.), Engels Today: A Centenary Appreciation,
Res Publica Vol. IV no.2 [1998]
http://www.springerlink.com/content/cj681t01212jh4l6/fulltext.pdf
Articles from this journal will be available to the general publis
for a limited time
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Marx Wartofsky's massive study, Feuerbach (Cambridge University
Press,1977), would, I think be an exception to that rule.
Jim F.
-- Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Expositions of Marxism have tended to limit treating Feuerbach as a
thinker in his own right, but not all scholars
Re:
Scientific method: logical representation vis à vis dialectical reproduction
(i.e., the consciousness dominated by alienation for believing itself an
abstractly free one vis à vis the consciousness that advances in its freedom
by being aware of its alienation)
I have never been able to
I thought that Popper trashed psychoanalysis and Marxism as
non-scientific because non-falsifiable as ad hoc auxiliary hypotheses
could always be brought in to account for any discrepancies between
the theory and empirical evidence. But perhaps this is different
from holism and the web of
science.
. . . . science, like all other issues
regarding
knowledge, is content-driven, while philosophy is a
purely
formalistic enterprise.
I don't think that there is any such thing, except
maybe (and I don't know enough to say about this) pure
mathemaetics.
--- Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED
One would think from reading a certain sort of Marxist literature
that these people live in a closed subculture, which means a
metaphysical and ideological mental universe cloistered from the
actual world it constantly beats its head against.
I don't think it is in human nature to give up even
As I said, it's not in our nature to give up however severely the
odds stack up against us.
Those of us who operate mentally as well as materially outside of
media and celebrity culture find ourselves effectively bound and
gagged. We can of course have and have had a small impact, but
.
Phil
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I look forward to reading this, thanks. PDF files are fine. If you
want to provide an alternative, can you automatically convert your
files to HTML format? Most people can read WORD files and certainly
RTF files, but everyone will read an HTML file and it could be purtier.
At 04:34 AM
And what new perspective do you bring to this imperative?
At 11:38 AM 11/1/2007, Karl Dallas wrote:
As the world staggers on towards destruction, the need to overthrow global
capitalism becomes more than just a necessity. It is an imperative. If we do
not move on to the next stage in the
Interesting. I didn't know Rosa Luxemburg got mixed up in philosophy,
let alone attack Neo-Kantianism. I'm not going to pay $25 to learn
what she said about it, but I am curious.
At 06:18 AM 12/3/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rosa Luxemburg, the Legacy of Classical German Philosophy and the
Jusding from this article alone, Eageleton is as much as asshole as
the other two. I never thought much of him, but now that he's having
a major attack of Catholicism and thirdworldism in his dotage, he's
really insufferable.
At 11:59 AM 12/27/2007, CeJ wrote:
I wouldn't buy Eagleton's new
This may be the only interesting item other than recipes that Essence
has ever published. It accords with Jackson's interview on Tavis
Smiley. It's reasonably sound for what it says, but what is not said
is just as important, viz.: the media manipulation of the primary
process, the money and
I am disheartened that Move.On is going to
endorse a candidate. They should stay out of
it. I don't like either Clinton or Obama, but I
despise the Clintons, so I could vote for Obama
out of spite. But either way, if the Republicans
run McCain, which is their only rational choice, we are in
Some of the personal biographical information is not totally germane
to the main issue. Obama's personality and self-fabrication may be
important to know about, but one doesn't even have to know all that
to see through the hype. It can't be a state secret that Obama is a
phony. He got where
Sitting This One Out
By Adolph L. Reed Jr.
November 2007 Issue
The Progressive
http://www.progressive.org/mag_reed1107
All true, and obvious. But I think the key is to disabuse oneself of
illusion, and not endorse either Hillary or Obama at this
point. Sure, vote for the lesser of two evils
This analysis looks pretty sound to me so far. I am rather
pessimistic about the presidential election, however. The outcome
could spell the end of American democracy. Unlike many others, I am
not terribly impressed that the Democratic Party will choose either a
white woman or a black man,
I may have missed something, but the massive black engagement with
Obama is sudden and recent. Before S.C., I can recall only the
endorsement of Oprah. I never bothered to check: Did Oprah give any
reasons for backing Obama?
There are a number of developments that concern me more. Frankly,
A few bullet points for now.
Given the three main contenders, I was an Edwards supporter. I was
sorry to see him drop out, but it was probably inevitable.
The worst development though is the push by MoveOn for Obama on
SuperTuesday. This is a big, big mistake. I'm willing to accept the
The conclusion is demonstrable absurd. There is a political crisis
a-brewing, but the working class will not take advantage of
it. Furthermore, the tremendous distraction of Clinton/Obama will be
brought down to earth once the convention is over and the victor
faces off against McCain. There
You are certainly correct to have a bad
feeling. The Obamamaniacs are living in a
wish-fulfillment world. I expect this from the
upper middle class liberal whites I know; what's
going on in other people's minds is a mystery
to me. But yeah, as I've said, Obama is being set up for a fall.
This testifies to Obama's centrist appeal and to recognition of the
damage that Bush has caused. Obama's appearance of being free of
traditional ties (vs. Clinton) and the weakness of Republican
politics has enabled this black man with an African name to get this
far, a feat that might have
Such cynicism is certainly warranted, but there's something missing
in this excerpt, which you can pick up in the Youngstown piece.
Obama's appeal is both vast and exaggerated, and highly
precarious. But this excerpt, which paints white males as the most
reactionary element of American
Further analysis of this paradox is needed.
I'm not fully convinced by these statements:
If Obama started talking like John Edwards and
tapped into working-class, blue-collar
proletarian rage, suddenly all of those white
voters who are viewing him within the lens of
transcendence would
Support Cynthia McKinney for what? IF she is running for
re-election, more power to her.
I'm not too thrilled about Nader throwing his hat into the ring,
unless there's organizing for something other than his useless
campaign involved. He described his web site on Meet the Press, and
it
As uninterested as I am in the CPUSA, I don't
disagree with this perspective, which is
comprised of obvious truisms couched in party jargon.
The bankruptcy of the Democratic Party is not
exactly a secret to the left, is it? Or is
cloistered sectarianism so rampant that the left
can no
I'm out of the loop, having long ago lost interest in the leftist
subculture when it functions as a subculture, thinking about itself
and its identity, which one would think only people who live
privileged lives can do.
I don't need the CP rhetoric to understand such basic principles. And
if
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There is one thing you are quite wrong about: though Obama is a
consummate opportunist and little more, it makes a big difference who
gets elected in November, especially for Americans. I live in the
USA, not elsewhere, and I live for myself, not for everyone but
me. I am not an activist,
An abstract in English, perhaps?
At 09:00 PM 3/6/2008, Jim Farmelant wrote:
My article, Neuer Atheismus (und Neuer Humanismus)
in den USA, which is being published this month
in the journal, Aufklärung und Kritik (http://www.gkpn.de/),
is now avaliable online at their website at:
For some reason, Conrad's article does not load properly in my
browser, and all the lines are truncated.
But my initial reaction is: these two deserve one
another. Trotskyism means never having to get a life.
At 09:20 PM 3/7/2008, Jim Farmelant wrote:
The CPGB's Jack Conrad critiques Rosa
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For some reason, Conrad's article does not load properly in my
browser, and all the lines are truncated.
But my
Your mail to 'Marxism-Thaxis' with the subject
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The reason it is being held:
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Either the message will get posted to the list,
Reading this crap is not rewarding. Probably I will not bother to
read Rosa's reply. Conrad moves from theme to theme:
(1) the actual historical development confutes the bourgeois notion
of progress,
(2) Hegelian dialectic is referenced by Marx as critical and revolutionary;
(3) Engels'
Reading this crap is not rewarding. Probably I will not bother to
read Rosa's reply. Conrad moves from theme to theme:
(1) the actual historical development confutes the bourgeois notion
of progress,
(2) Hegelian dialectic is referenced by Marx as critical and revolutionary;
(3) Engels'
To answer your first question:
And so, what is the negation of the negation? An
extremely general and for this reason extremely
far-reaching and important law of development
of nature, history, and thought
Dialectics, however, is nothing more than the
science of the general laws of
There are numerous references to Karl Popper in this
periodical. These two seem to be the most substantial (relatively
speaking) from what I've seen:
Weekly Worker 700 Thursday December 6 2007
Powerful because it coherently explains
Jack Conrad defends dialectical materialism against
Can't access the full article, but hopefully it
is not as vacuous as this extract.
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I.e. no insight at all. Except insofar as mimicking the cynicism,
incoherence and fragmentation of contemporary culture is
insight. But traditionally the goal of intellectuals was not to
mimic mystification, but to penetrate to its core and create coherent
understanding in its place.
And what, pray tell, are Hegel's answers?
What do you think of David Harvey's THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY?
If there is such a thing as postmodernity (the condition), distinct
from postmodernism as a theoretical approach, when do you think it
began? It seems to me that historical amnesia
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