From: Andrew Brown (Andrew@LUBS.LEEDS.AC.UK)
Date: Tue Mar 23 2004 - 11:14:09 EST
Hi Jerry, > In any event, why are you surprised that a Soviet philosopher > from the 1970's isn't generally taken seriously? Not 'generally', but 'generally in Western academia'. He is revered in Russia, as far as I know. Not 'surprised' but 'disappointed'. It is a bit of a pain to find oneself stuck trying to develop a theory which is relatively obscure! It took me a while to work out that this was perhaps the main problem with my paper which we were originally discussing > > Wasn't Ilyenkov an advocate of dialectical materialism (sometimes > called 'diamat')? If so, why then do you invert the expression by > saying "materialist dialectics"? > He directly opposed 'DIAMAT' as in orthodox Marxism-Leinism. This maybe why he referred to 'materialist dialectics' rather than 'dialectical materialism'. I don't really care what name is used as long as there is no conflation with Stalin's work and the like. Many thanks, Andy
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