From: John Holloway (johnholloway@prodigy.net.mx)
Date: Sun Nov 10 2002 - 14:23:48 EST
Rakesh,
Many thanks for the comments and the references. I'll check them out.
John
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>From: Rakesh Bhandari <rakeshb@stanford.edu>
>To: ope-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu
>Subject: [OPE-L:7978] Process Philosophy
>Date: Sat, Nov 9, 2002, 5:49 PM
>
>I have been very impressed and moved by John's ability to plumb the
>depths of and to develop Marx's critiques of reification and
>fetishism by simply and unpretentiously focusing on the everyday
>language of our doing.
>Just as Lukacs's critique of reification seems to owe something to
>Simmel's vitalism (for which Colletti excoriated Lukacs), I
>tentatively believe there may be some possible connection to process
>philosophy as a result of John's critique of nouns and noun like
>entities, though John's own work surely seems to undercut the need
>for any kind of metaphysics to undergird Marx's critique.
>
>For those who are interested in the connection to process philosophy:
>
>Go to http://www.processphilosophy.org/; then papers, Full Text 2000
>APA - Anne Fairchild Pomeroy: "Process Ontology and the Critique of
>Capitalism"
>
>Pomeroy has a forthcoming book * Marx and Whitehead: Process,
>Dialectics, and the Critique of Capitalism* (Forthcoming, SUNY Press)
>
>There is an earlier book Author: Kleinbach, Russell L. Title: Marx
>via process : Whitehead's potential contribution to Marxian social
>theory / Russell L. Kleinbach. Imprint: Washington, D.C. :
>University Press of America, c1982. Physical Description: xiv, 198
>p. ; 21 cm. Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis
>(doctoral--Boston University) Bibliography: p. 193-198. Subject
>(LC): Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.
>
>rb
>
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