Re: origins of industrial capitalism -- Middlemarch on PE

From: Michael Eldred (artefact@T-ONLINE.DE)
Date: Wed Sep 24 2003 - 17:18:17 EDT


Cologne 24-Sep-2003

Michael Williams schrieb Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:35:23 +0100:

> Hello Michael,
>
> Why participate then?

Research project investigating the question:

What is it like to bMW?
Seeing what former pupils are doing.

How's the wife?

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: OPE-L [mailto:OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU] On Behalf Of
> > Michael Eldred
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:26 AM
> > To: OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU
> > Subject: Re: origins of industrial capitalism -- Middlemarch on PE
> >
> >
> > Cologne 24-Sep-2003
> >
> > Or, to put it another way: I find the cramped, narrow horizon
> > of this list so depressing. Dorothea may help to brighten up
> > the atmosphere here. Don't you think it needs a woman's touch
> > to make the place come alive?
> >
> > Or: What is it like to bMW?
> >
> > Michael
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> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Betreff: Re: origins of industrial capitalism -- Middlemarch on PE
> > Datum: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:07:26 +0200
> > Von: Michael Eldred <artefact@T-ONLINE.DE>
> > Rückantwort: OPE-L <OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU>
> > Firma: http://www.webcom.com/artefact/
> > An: OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU
> > Referenzen:
> >
> > Cologne 21-Sep-2003
> >
> > Rakesh Bhandari schrieb Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:22:42 -0700:
> >
> > > >Cologne 20-Sep-2003
> > > >
> > > >"She sat down in the library before her particular little heap of
> > > >books on political economy and kindred matters, out of
> > which she was
> > > >trying to get light as to the best way
> > > >of spending money so as not to injure one's neighbours, or -- what
> > > >comes to the same
> > > >thing -- so as to do the most good. Here was a weighty subject
> > > >which, if she could but
> > > >lay hold of it, would certainly keep her mind steady." (George
> > > >Eliot, Middlemarch,
> > > >Chapter Eighty-Three p.804)
> > >
> > > My interest is not as fleeting as Dorothea's; nor are my
> > motivations
> > > for this study in any way similar to hers. My wife the English
> > > professor tells me that you have inappropriately used the
> > passage. But
> > > then as with your idea of the Cartesian limits of Marx, I
> > again have
> > > no idea as to what you are on about. Rakesh
> >
> > Rakesh,
> > If taking a passage out of its context in a novel and putting
> > it next to thoughts on the origins of industrial capitalism
> > is inappropriate, then the use of the passage is
> > inappropriate. I prefer to call it juxtaposition. The
> > discrepancy can be productive, like an art work by Kurt Schwitters.
> >
> > Of course I don't want to suggest your interest in PE is
> > fleeting. I sent the e-mail with the above header more as a
> > note to myself. I like to have intriguing passages simply
> > work on me. Sometimes thoughts come.
> >
> > By contrast, I spent quite a deal of effort in this forum
> > trying to show why and how the Marxian approach to the
> > phenomenon of value has to be freed from its Cartesian
> > casting. That was not simply juxtaposition, but is flanked by
> > many years of work.
> >
> > Whether laconic or prolix, it seems to make no difference.
> >
> > Michael
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