We ignore the history of philosophy at our peril. Engels, who typically conflates Marx and Marxism, points to relation Marxism tradition while also denying it. In his little book on Feuerbach, Engels depicts Feuerbach as leading away from Hegel, classical German philosophy, towards materialism science. This view suggests that is best negatively related Classical including Hegel. Yet elsewhere b...

Philology, the 'love of the word', is an academic discipline that threatens to turn the texts collected in critical editions into intellectual playgrounds. For the important task that consists in trying to arrive at as coherent an understanding of a text as possible by considering everything its author has written always trails a certain danger in its wake: it can all too easily become an acade...

this paper examines critically the contributions of cournot, jevons and walras as the founders of classical mathematical economics from a methodological standpoint. advances in different economic schools and doctrines in the 19th century produced an environment of multi-dimensionality in economic analysis which was regarded by the pioneers of classical mathematical economists as a chaotic state...

PAUL HEYER, Nature, human nature, and society: Marx, Darwin, biology, and the human sciences, Westport, Conn., and London, Greenwood Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xvi, 266, £23.95. HOIMAR VON DITFURTH, The origins of life. Evolution as creation, translated by Peter Heinegg, London, Harper & Row, 1982, 8vo, pp. xv, 279, £9.50. One way or another, Charles Darwin has always been linked with people he did ...

Economist Anthony Brewer throws down the gauntlet to those who esteem the economic contributions of Karl Marx, arguing in a 1995 article in History of Political Economy that the mainstream’s evident neglect of these contributions is amply justified by the fact that there was nothing of lasting value in Marx’s political economic writing, or at least in the portion thereof that was widely availab...