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9780230535312

Dialectics for the New Century

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230535312

  • ISBN10:

    0230535313

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-04-15
  • Publisher: 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.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. 1
Why Dialectics? Why Now?p. 8
Dialectics and Systems Theoryp. 26
The Dialectics of Nature and Marxist Ecologyp. 50
I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refusep. 83
Dialectics of Emergencep. 85
The Dialectics of Spacetimep. 98
Persistencies of the Dialectic: Three Sitesp. 118
The Dialectics of Walking on Two Legsp. 132
Dialectical Transformations: Teleology, History and Social Consciousnessp. 135
Dialectics and Revolution: Trotsky, Lenin, Lukacsp. 151
Dialectics and Revolution, Nowp. 163
Towards a Systematic Dialectic of Globalizationp. 179
The Hole in Hegel's Bagelp. 199
The Dialectic of Capital: An Unoist Interpretationp. 200
Systematic Dialecticp. 211
Marxist Feminist Dialectics for the Twenty-first Centuryp. 222
Dialectic as Praxisp. 235
Livant's Cure for Baldnessp. 243
Dialectics and Wisdomp. 246
Indexp. 260
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