From: Ian Hunt (ian.hunt@FLINDERS.EDU.AU)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2007 - 01:16:04 EST
Dear Rakesh, Your account below is pretty close to the mark, Cheers, Ian > >>So we have logical and historical dialectics but you seem to emphasize >> ontological dialectics? >> Yes. But they are not exclusive > >Yes as I responded to you offlist earlier today (and I think I am >understanding your point >of view): >> >> >>By dialectics do you mean... >> >>1. the capitalist organism does not hold together like a (Cartesian) >machine-- >>the parts inner-act; at work within are incompatible systematic demands; >>the organism, unlike a solid crystal, develops and changes as a result; >>it brings about its own end through its own inner workings. >> >>2. due to this ontological dialectics, one cannot understand >>capitalism through a Cartesian >>reductionist method in which parts are given ontological primacy and >>immanent contradiction >>is (putatively) unthinkable. So the logic must be suited to the content. >> >>So is this in part what you mean by dialectical marxism? >> >>Rakesh > > > >> -- >> Associate Professor Ian Hunt, >> Dept of Philosophy, School of Humanities, >> Director, Centre for Applied Philosophy, >> Flinders University of SA, >> Humanities Building, >> Bedford Park, SA, 5042, >> Ph: (08) 8201 2054 Fax: (08) 8201 2784 >> -- Associate Professor Ian Hunt, Dept of Philosophy, School of Humanities, Director, Centre for Applied Philosophy, Flinders University of SA, Humanities Building, Bedford Park, SA, 5042, Ph: (08) 8201 2054 Fax: (08) 8201 2784
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