Dance Of The Dialectic

Author : Bertell Ollman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0252071182

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Dance of the Dialectic by Bertell Ollman Pdf

Bertell Ollman has been hailed as "this country's leading authority on dialectics and Marx's method" by Paul Sweezy, the editor of Monthly Review and dean of America's Marx scholars. In this book Ollman offers a thorough analysis of Marx's use of dialectical method. Marx made extremely creative use of dialectical method to analyze the origins, operation, and direction of capitalism. Unfortunately, his promised book on method was never written, so that readers wishing to understand and evaluate Marx's theories, or to revise or use them, have had to proceed without a clear grasp of the dialectic in which the theories are framed. The result has been more disagreement over "what Marx really meant" than over the writings of any other major thinker. In putting Marx's philosophy of internal relations and his use of the process of abstraction--two little-studied aspects of dialectics--at the center of this account, Ollman provides a version of Marx's method that is at once systematic, scholarly, clear and eminently useful. Ollman not only sheds important new light on what Marx really meant in his varied theoretical pronouncements, but in carefully laying out the steps in Marx's method makes it possible for a reader to put the dialectic to work in his or her own research. He also convincingly argues the case for why social scientists and humanists as well as philosophers should want to do so.

Author : Edward Beach
Publisher : University Press of Amer
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Dialectic
ISBN : 0819106151

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Dance of the Dialectic by Edward Beach Pdf

Author : Larry Zolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1459324951

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Dance of the Dialectic by Larry Zolf Pdf

Author : Randy Martin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822322196

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Critical Moves by Randy Martin Pdf

A theoretical examination of the influence of political and social movements on the art of dance.

Author : Raju J Das
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004337473

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Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World by Raju J Das Pdf

Marxist Theory of Class for a Skeptical World is a critique of Analytical Marxist and Post-structuralist Marxist theories of class, and offers an alternative approach rooted in the ideas of Marx and Engels, as well as Lenin and Trotsky.

Author : Chris Matthew Sciabarra
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271083711

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Total Freedom by Chris Matthew Sciabarra Pdf

Building upon his previous books about Marx, Hayek, and Rand, Total Freedom completes what Lingua Franca has called Sciabarra’s "epic scholarly quest" to reclaim dialectics, usually associated with the Marxian left, as a methodology that can revivify libertarian thought. Part One surveys the history of dialectics from the ancient Greeks through the Austrian school of economics. Part Two investigates in detail the work of Murray Rothbard as a leading modern libertarian, in whose thought Sciabarra finds both dialectical and nondialectical elements. Ultimately, Sciabarra aims for a dialectical-libertarian synthesis, highlighting the need (not sufficiently recognized in liberalism) to think of the "totality" of interconnections in a dynamic system as the way to ensure human freedom while avoiding "totalitarianism" (such as resulted from Marxism).

Author : Paul B. Paolucci
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047420972

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Marx's Scientific Dialectics by Paul B. Paolucci Pdf

This book examines both problems in traditional readings of Marx's texts and how he used several methods of science to inform his dialectical thinking, historical materialist research, political economic analyses, and his communist project. A case is made for Marx's continuing methodological relevance.

Author : Osha Neumann
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781583229965

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Up Against the Wall Motherf**er by Osha Neumann Pdf

They called themselves the Motherfuckers; others called them a "street gang with an analysis." Osha Neumann's thoughtful, funny, and honest account of his part in ’60s counterculture is also an unflinching look at what all that rebellion of the past means today. The fast moving story follows the establishment of the Motherfuckers, who influenced the Yippies and members of SDS; makes vivid the art, music, and politics of the era; and reveals the colorful, often deeply strange, personalities that gave the movement its momentum. Abbie Hoffman said the Motherfuckers were "the middle-class nightmare . . . an antimedia media phenomenon simply because their name could not be printed." In the few years of its existence the group forced its way into the Pentagon during a war protest, helped occupy one of the buildings in the Columbia University takeover, and cut the fences at Woodstock to allow thousands in for free, among many other feats of radical derring-do. Progressing from a fractured family of intellectuals to rebellion in the streets of New York and on to communes in California, Newmann shows us a view of a life led in rebellion, anger, and eventually a tentative peace.

Author : Christian Fuchs
Publisher : University of Westminster Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781912656721

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Communication and Capitalism by Christian Fuchs Pdf

‘An authoritative analysis of the role of communication in contemporary capitalism and an important contribution to debates about the forms of domination and potentials for liberation in today’s capitalist society.’ — Professor Michael Hardt, Duke University, co-author of the tetralogy Empire, Commonwealth, Multitude, and Assembly ‘A comprehensive approach to understanding and transcending the deepening crisis of communicative capitalism. It is a major work of synthesis and essential reading for anyone wanting to know what critical analysis is and why we need it now more than ever.’ — Professor Graham Murdock, Emeritus Professor, University of Loughborough and co-editor of The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications Communication and Capitalism outlines foundations of a critical theory of communication. Going beyond Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action, Christian Fuchs outlines a communicative materialism that is a critical, dialectical, humanist approach to theorising communication in society and in capitalism. The book renews Marxist Humanism as a critical theory perspective on communication and society. The author theorises communication and society by engaging with the dialectic, materialism, society, work, labour, technology, the means of communication as means of production, capitalism, class, the public sphere, alienation, ideology, nationalism, racism, authoritarianism, fascism, patriarchy, globalisation, the new imperialism, the commons, love, death, metaphysics, religion, critique, social and class struggles, praxis, and socialism. Fuchs renews the engagement with the questions of what it means to be a human and a humanist today and what dangers humanity faces today.

Author : Ishay Landa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047443810

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The Apprentice’s Sorcerer by Ishay Landa Pdf

This book contends incisively that fascism, far from being the antithesis of liberalism, ought to be seen centrally as an effort to unknot the longue durée tangle of the liberal order, as it finally collided, head on, with mass democracy.

Author : Bertell Ollman
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0896080803

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Social and Sexual Revolution by Bertell Ollman Pdf

The author of Alienation extends his original approach to social theory in this discussion of Marx's view of socialism, class analysis, and the problem of socialist consciousness, and Wilhelm Reich's contributions to the psychology of social change.

Author : Bertell Ollman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415906806

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Dialectical Investigations by Bertell Ollman Pdf

Offers students a basic introduction to dialectics as well as a challenging exposition of its application to a wide range of social and historical phenomena. In this volume, Bertell also provides six in-depth case studies of dialectical method in action.

Author : Christian Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000744118

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Marxism by Christian Fuchs Pdf

This introductory text is a critical theory toolkit on how to how to make use of Karl Marx’s ideas in media, communication, and cultural studies. Karl Marx’s ideas remain of crucial relevance, and in this short, student-friendly book, leading expert Christian Fuchs introduces Marx to the reader by discussing 15 of his key concepts and showing how they matter for understanding the digital and communicative capitalism that shapes human life in twenty-first century society. Key concepts covered include: the dialectic, materialism, commodities, capital, capitalism, labour, surplus-value, the working class, alienation, means of communication, the general intellect, ideology, socialism, communism, and class struggles. Students taking courses in Media, Culture and Society; Communication Theory; Media Economics; Political Communication; and Cultural Studies will find Fuchs' concise introduction an essential guide to Marx.

Author : James A. Tyner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780803284586

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Violence in Capitalism by James A. Tyner Pdf

What, James Tyner asks, separates the murder of a runaway youth from the death of a father denied a bone-marrow transplant because of budget cuts? Moving beyond our culture’s reductive emphasis on whether a given act of violence is intentional—and may therefore count as deliberate murder—Tyner interrogates the broader forces that produce violence. His uniquely geographic perspective considers where violence takes place (the workplace, the home, the prison, etc.) and how violence moves across space. Approaching violence as one of several methods of constituting space, Tyner examines everything from the way police departments map crime to the emergence of “environmental criminology.” Throughout, he casts violence in broad terms—as a realm that is not limited to criminal acts and one that can be divided into the categories of “killing” and “letting die.” His framework extends the study of biopolitics by examining the state’s role in producing (or failing to produce) a healthy citizenry. It also adds to the new literature on capitalism by articulating the interconnections between violence and political economy. Simply put, capitalism (especially its neoliberal and neoconservative variants) is structured around a valuation of life that fosters a particular abstraction of violence and crime.

Author : Laura Baecher,Megan Blumenreich,Shira Eve Epstein,Julie Horwitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429890598

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Teacher Education in the Trump Era and Beyond by Laura Baecher,Megan Blumenreich,Shira Eve Epstein,Julie Horwitz Pdf

This book aims to start the conversation about how the consequences of the historic 2016 election can be addressed in the teacher education classroom. Taking as its starting point the Trump administration’s dramatic influence on education, educational policy, the culture in schools, and the safety of children, contributors demonstrate how teacher educators across the United States are adapting their curriculum. The chapters represent a variety of aspects of teacher support and preparation, and address practices such as rejecting xenophobia, developing critical thinking, and responding to children’s emotional lives. The issues addressed in this volume are a continuation of conflicts and challenges with which educators have long grappled, and the contributors’ insights will be valuable under a range of future political circumstances.