From: Gerald A. Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 17:37:51 EDT
Hi Ajit. > Any way, I don't even know what you mean by positivism. While there have been many different variants and traditions of positivist thought (see especially the bottom two sites below), here are some sources on positivism on the Net: You can find a short 'quick and dirty' Marxian definition at: http://www.newyouth.com/archives/theory/glossary/p.asp Fuller critical discussions of positivism by Ilyenkov (hi Andy) and by George Novack can be found at marxists.org: http://www.marxists.org/archive/ilyenkov/works/positive http://www.marxists.org/archive/novack/works/history/ch11.htm A shorter, more sketchy Marxist source by David Hookes: http://www.isf.org/uk/ISFJournal/NextStep/ISF4/MarxandPositivism.htm For an explanation of the historical evolution of positivism and its different varieties, see the entries in the "Dictionary of the History of Ideas": http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/alpha/O-P.html (the entry on "Positivism in Latin America" by Ronald Hilton is quite interesting and, perhaps, worthy of discussion.) A site with lots of links: http://www.radicalacademy.com/adiphilpositivism.htm In solidarity, Jerry
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