Dialectics for the New Century
by Ollman, Bertell; Smith, Tony BagnallFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-04-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
This anthology contains some of the more important Marxist thinkers now working on dialectics. As a whole the book is an unusual 'Introduction to Dialectics', a systematic restatement of what it is and how to use it, a survey of most of the main debates in the field, and a good picture of the current state of the art of dialectics.
Author Biography
BERTELL OLLMAN is a Professor of Politics at New York University, and author of Dance of the Dialectics: Steps in Marx's Method, Dialectical Investigations, Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society, among other works. In 2002 Professor Ollman won the first Charles A. McCoy Distinguished Career Award from the New Political Science section of the American Political Science Association.
TONY SMITH is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University. His books include Globalization: A Systematic Marxian Account, Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production, Dialectical Social Theory and its Critics, and The Logic of Marx's Capital.
TONY SMITH is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University. His books include Globalization: A Systematic Marxian Account, Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production, Dialectical Social Theory and its Critics, and The Logic of Marx's Capital.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Why Dialectics? Why Now? | p. 8 |
| Dialectics and Systems Theory | p. 26 |
| The Dialectics of Nature and Marxist Ecology | p. 50 |
| I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse | p. 83 |
| Dialectics of Emergence | p. 85 |
| The Dialectics of Spacetime | p. 98 |
| Persistencies of the Dialectic: Three Sites | p. 118 |
| The Dialectics of Walking on Two Legs | p. 132 |
| Dialectical Transformations: Teleology, History and Social Consciousness | p. 135 |
| Dialectics and Revolution: Trotsky, Lenin, Lukacs | p. 151 |
| Dialectics and Revolution, Now | p. 163 |
| Towards a Systematic Dialectic of Globalization | p. 179 |
| The Hole in Hegel's Bagel | p. 199 |
| The Dialectic of Capital: An Unoist Interpretation | p. 200 |
| Systematic Dialectic | p. 211 |
| Marxist Feminist Dialectics for the Twenty-first Century | p. 222 |
| Dialectic as Praxis | p. 235 |
| Livant's Cure for Baldness | p. 243 |
| Dialectics and Wisdom | p. 246 |
| Index | p. 260 |
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