Dialectics and difference: against Harvey's dialectical ‘post-Marxism’

Marxism and Method

Sociological Marxism

From the middle of the 19 century until the last decade of the 20, the Marxist tradition provided the most systematic body of ideas and social theory for radical critics of capitalism as an economic system and social order. Even those critics of capitalism who did not directly identify with Marxism relied heavily on Marxist ideas about class, exploitation, commodification, the state, ideology. ...

Kreislauffunktion in William Harveys Schriften

Talking of Harvey we concentrate perhaps too much upon the Copernican revolution in biology and medicine which is due to his discovery of the circulation of the blood. The small book De motu of 1628 in which it is enshrined has grossly overshadowed his other literary remains. And yet the latter deserve our full attention as well, if we wish to obtain a picture of Harvey as a whole, i.e. of the ...

Marxism and Critical Realism

Bhaskar defines the philosopher differently: the philosopher observes the scientist, and sees that the scientist is able to expand knowledge about the world using the methods he is using. The philosopher concludes from this: obviously, the world is such that the methods applied by the scientists allow them to gain knowledge about it. This tells us something very important about the world. The p...

Pragma-dialectics and Beyond

Pragma-dialectics is dynamic, context-sensitive, and multi-agent; it promises theories of fallacy and argumentative structure. But pragma-dialectic theory and practice are not yet fully in harmony. Key definitions of the theory fall short of explicating the analyses that pragma-dialecticians actually do. Many discussions involve more than two participants with different and mutually incompatibl...