With Marx’s Ecology, John Bellamy Foster has written the definitive account of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels’s materialism. Its title notwithstanding, Marx’s Ecology is far more than an account of Marx’s thinking about nature. Marx’s materialism is not contained within the critique of capitalism, Foster argues, but rather the other way around—it is Marx’s critique of capitalism that is contain...

Is materialism still relevant to critically think politics? Throughout modernity, the concept of was associated with fatalism and naturalism, when it not simply dismissed as heresy atheism. In nineteenth century, evolved into a central progressive politics, reappearing again in past decades through renewed Marxist Spinoza-based approaches, New Materialism, feminist discourses. This volume inqui...

This research examined the association between naive dialectical thinking and creativity, measured as originality in problem construction and reframing (types of problem finding). Ethnic identity (Caucasian vs. Asian=Asian American) was examined as a moderator. Two correlational studies and one experimental study revealed a complex pattern of results: For problems with low inherent contradictio...

Previous research suggests that members of East Asian cultures show a greater preference for dialectical thinking and sensitivity to context information than do Westerners. We suggest this difference is rooted in a greater chronic Fear of Isolation (FOI) in East Asians than in Westerners. To support this hypothesis, we manipulated FOI in a group of Westerners and assessed their relative prefere...

People use dialectical thinking to be holistic, reconcile contradictions, and emphasize changes when processing information and managing problems. Using a questionnaire survey, this study examined the relationship between dialectical thinking and creative personality in the Chinese culture, which encourages a holistic and collective thinking style. Undergraduates majoring in different subjects ...

Defeasible argumentation is one of the approaches that addresses the challenges arising when we reason defeasibly, with several formalisms in the literature reaching a mature state. Considering that most of these theories eventually shifted their semantics towards dialectical characterizations, we believe that a sufficiently generic model of the process of reasoning in dialectical terms could a...

Background and purpose: together with drug treatment can be benefited of dialectical behavior therapy improvement in people with schizophrenia.this study investigates the impact of dialectical behavior therapy on patients with negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Materials and methods: The study population includes all men who have schizophrenia in the center bahar of year 1393. They were random...