The Emergence Of Dialectical Theory

Author : Scott Warren
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 273 pages
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Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226873923

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The Emergence of Dialectical Theory by Scott Warren Pdf

Scott Warren’s ambitious and enduring work sets out to resolve the ongoing identity crisis of contemporary political inquiry. In the Emergence of Dialectical Theory, Warren begins with a careful analysis of the philosophical foundations of dialectical theory in the thought of Kant, Hegel, and Marx. He then examines how the dialectic functions in the major twentieth-century philosophical movements of existentialism, phenomenology, neomarxism, and critical theory. Numerous major and minor philosophers are discussed, but the emphasis falls on two of the greatest dialectical thinkers of the previous century: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jürgen Habermas. Warren’s shrewd critique is indispensable to those interested in the history of social and political thought and the philosophical foundations of political theory. His work offers an alternative for those who find postmodernism to be at a philosophical impasse.

Author : Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov
Publisher : Aakar Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dialectic
ISBN : 8189833391

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Dialectical Logic; Essays on its History and Theory by Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov Pdf

This book traces the development of Dialectical Logic within the history of modern western philosophy, culminating in Marx s materialist dialectics. It brings out the essential contours of Logic through a detailed exposition of the ontological and epistem

Author : Andrew Cole
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226135564

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The Birth of Theory by Andrew Cole Pdf

Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory—Hegel did. To support this contention, Andrew Cole’s The Birth of Theory presents a refreshingly clear and lively account of the origins and legacy of Hegel’s dialectic as theory. Cole explains how Hegel boldly broke from modern philosophy when he adopted medieval dialectical habits of thought to fashion his own dialectic. While his contemporaries rejected premodern dialectic as outdated dogma, Hegel embraced both its emphasis on language as thought and its fascination with the categories of identity and difference, creating what we now recognize as theory, distinct from systematic philosophy. Not content merely to change philosophy, Hegel also used this dialectic to expose the persistent archaism of modern life itself, Cole shows, establishing a method of social analysis that has influenced everyone from Marx and the nineteenth-century Hegelians, to Nietzsche and Bakhtin, all the way to Deleuze and Jameson. By uncovering these theoretical filiations across time, The Birth of Theory will not only change the way we read Hegel, but also the way we think about the histories of theory. With chapters that powerfully reanimate the overly familiar topics of ideology, commodity fetishism, and political economy, along with a groundbreaking reinterpretation of Hegel’s famous master/slave dialectic, The Birth of Theory places the disciplines of philosophy, literature, and history in conversation with one another in an unprecedented way. Daring to reconcile the sworn enemies of Hegelianism and Deleuzianism, this timely book will revitalize dialectics for the twenty-first century.

Author : Jay Lampert
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441126399

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Simultaneity and Delay by Jay Lampert Pdf

An innovative new theory of 'staggered time', based on the relation between simultaneity and delay.

Author : Boike Rehbein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317514480

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Critical Theory After the Rise of the Global South by Boike Rehbein Pdf

After the end of Euro-American hegemony and the return of the multi-centric world, Eurocentrism in philosophy and the social sciences has come under attack. However, no real alternative has been proposed. This provides an opportunity to reassess the philosophy of the social sciences that has been developed in the West. This book argues that the re-emergence of a multi-centric world allows the Euro-centric social sciences in general, and critical theory in particular, to finally disengage from countless paradoxes and impasses by which they have heretofore been hindered. The author presents a solution in the form of the "kaleidoscopic dialectic." This dialectic is unique in that it is able to overcome the precarious dichotomy between universalism and relativism by relying on an original approach to the philosophy of science. With this approach, the focus is on the configurations embedded in the ethics of understanding, accommodation and learning and on their connections to broader social scientific critique. This book demands that the European social sciences make philosophical and methodological adaptations to the new realities of the social world by becoming more reflexive and, by extension, less Euro-centric.

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110321289

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Dialectics by Nicholas Rescher Pdf

Few ideas have played a more continuously prominent role throughout the history of philosophy than that of dialectic, which has figured on the philosophical agenda from the time of the Presocratics. The present book explores the philosophical promise of dialectic, especially in its dialogical version associated with disputation, debate, and rational controversy. The book’s deliberations examine what lessons can be drawn to exhibit the utility of dialectical proceedings for the theory of knowledge in reminding us that the building-up of knowledge is an interpersonally interactive enterprise subject to communal standards.

Author : Gail Day
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231520621

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Dialectical Passions by Gail Day Pdf

Representing a new generation of theorists reaffirming the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day launches a bold critique of late twentieth-century art theory and its often reductive analysis of cultural objects. Exploring core debates in discourses on art, from the New Left to theories of "critical postmodernism" and beyond, Day counters the belief that recent tendencies in art fail to be adequately critical. She also challenges the political inertia that results from these conclusions. Day organizes her defense around critics who have engaged substantively with emancipatory thought and social process: T. J. Clark, Manfredo Tafuri, Fredric Jameson, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, and Hal Foster, among others. She maps the tension between radical dialectics and left nihilism and assesses the interpretation and internalization of negation in art theory. Chapters confront the claim that exchange and equivalence have subsumed the use value of cultural objects and with it critical distance and interrogate the proposition of completed nihilism and the metropolis put forward in the politics of Italian operaismo. Day covers the debates on symbol and allegory waged within the context of 1980s art and their relation to the writings of Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man. She also examines common conceptions of mediation, totality, negation, and the politics of anticipation. A necessary unsettling of received wisdoms, Dialectical Passions recasts emancipatory reflection in aesthetics, art, and architecture.

Author : Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521892694

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Gramsci and the History of Dialectical Thought by Maurice A. Finocchiaro Pdf

A critical reappraisal of Gramsci as a thinker and of the dialectical approach as a mode of inquiry.

Author : John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : History
ISBN : BSB:BSB11171167

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Studies in the Hegelian Dialectic by John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart Pdf

Author : Manolis Dafermos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811301919

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Rethinking Cultural-Historical Theory by Manolis Dafermos Pdf

This book is an exploration of science in the making. It offers readers the opportunity to critically reflect on the process of development of Vygotsky's research program from the perspective of dialectics, focusing on the dramatic process of building and rebuilding cultural historical theory. Vygotsky's creative and dramatic journey is no less important than the concrete results of his research. An epistemological and historical investigation of the formulation of cultural historical theory sheds light on the process of knowledge production and reveals hidden dimensions of creativity in science.

Author : Ted Grant
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780875862378

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Reason in Revolt, Vol. II by Ted Grant Pdf

Two of Britain''s deans of socialist thought consider the philosophical writings of Marx and Engels in the light of recent advances in the sciences. The authors have written a dozen books; this work is a hit in ten countries.The book reasserts the dialecti

Author : Jakob Leth Fink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139789288

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The Development of Dialectic from Plato to Aristotle by Jakob Leth Fink Pdf

The period from Plato's birth to Aristotle's death (427–322 BC) is one of the most influential and formative in the history of Western philosophy. The developments of logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and science in this period have been investigated, controversies have arisen and many new theories have been produced. But this is the first book to give detailed scholarly attention to the development of dialectic during this decisive period. It includes chapters on topics such as: dialectic as interpersonal debate between a questioner and a respondent; dialectic and the dialogue form; dialectical methodology; the dialectical context of certain forms of arguments; the role of the respondent in guaranteeing good argument; dialectic and presentation of knowledge; the interrelations between written dialogues and spoken dialectic; and definition, induction and refutation from Plato to Aristotle. The book contributes to the history of philosophy and also to the contemporary debate about what philosophy is.

Author : George Ciccariello-Maher
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822373704

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Decolonizing Dialectics by George Ciccariello-Maher Pdf

Anticolonial theorists and revolutionaries have long turned to dialectical thought as a central weapon in their fight against oppressive structures and conditions. This relationship was never easy, however, as anticolonial thinkers have resisted the historical determinism, teleology, Eurocentrism, and singular emphasis that some Marxisms place on class identity at the expense of race, nation, and popular identity. In recent decades, the conflict between dialectics and postcolonial theory has only deepened. In Decolonizing Dialectics George Ciccariello-Maher breaks this impasse by bringing the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a dialectics suited to the struggle against the legacies of colonialism and slavery. This is a decolonized dialectics premised on constant struggle in which progress must be fought for and where the struggles of the wretched of the earth themselves provide the only guarantee of historical motion.

Author : Sean Creaven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136013423

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Emergentist Marxism by Sean Creaven Pdf

In tackling emergentist Marxism in depth, this well-written volume demonstrates that critical realism and materialist dialectics are indispensable to theorizing the functioning of complex social and physical systems. Author Sean Creaven investigates Marx’s dialectics of being and consciousness, forces and relations of production, base and superstructure, class structure and class conflict, and demonstrates how they allow the social analyst to conceptualize geo-history as embodying a tendential evolutionary directionality, rather than as simply random or indeterminate in terms of its outcomes. For those interested in social and political theory, Marxism and communism and contemporary social theory, this outstanding volume is an in important read and a valuable resource.

Author : Martin Jay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520917514

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The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay Pdf

Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal—the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. The Dialectical Imagination is a major history of this monumental cultural and intellectual enterprise during its early years in Germany and in the United States. Martin Jay has provided a substantial new preface for this edition, in which he reflects on the continuing relevance of the work of the Frankfurt School.