عنوان

Marxism and Alternatives :

(Number (ISBN

9400984952

(Number (ISBN

9789400984950

Number

b593997

Title Proper

Marxism and Alternatives :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Towards the Conceptual Interaction Among Soviet Philosophy, Neo-Thomism, Pragmatism, and Phenomenology

First Statement of Responsibility

by Tom Rockmore, William J. Gavin, James G. Colbert, Thomas J. Blakeley.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1981

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(XIV, 314 pages).

Series Title

Sovietica, Publications and Monographs of the Institute of East-European Studies at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland and The Center For East Europe, Russia and Asia at Boston College and The Seminar for Political Theory and Philosophy at the University of Munich, 45.

Text of Note

One: The Immanence of Marxism-Leninism --; 1. Emergence of the "New Soviet Man" --; 2. The Scientific-Technological Revolution --; 3. Dialectical Logic --; 4. The Dialectic of Nature --; 5. Meta-Marxism --; Two: The Transcendence of Neo-Thomism --; 6. Natural Law and the Common Good --; 7. Nature and Knowledge --; 8. Logic and Knowledge --; 9. Immateriality --; 10. The "Predicamental" Perspective --; Three: The Concreteness of Pragmatism --; 11. Context --; 12. Science and Progress --; 13. Making Logic Practical --; 14. Nature and the Natural --; 15. "Context" as a Philosophical Concept --; Four: The Transcendentalism of Phenomenology --; 16. The Phenomenological Movement --; 17. An Approach to Social Context --; 18. Phenomenological Methodology --; 19. An Ontological Phenomenology? --; 20. Meta-Phenomenology --; Five: Conclusion --; Notes --; Index of Names --; Index of Subjects.

Text of Note

Contemporary philosophy is by its nature pluralistic, to a perhaps greater extent than at any moment of the preceding tradition, in that there are multiple forms of thought competing for a position on the center of the philosophic stage. The reasons for this conceptual proliferation are numerous. But certainly one factor is the increasing development of contemporary means of publication and communication, which in turn make possible the rapid dissemination of ideas as well as an informed reaction to them. And this in turn has increased the possibility for serious philosophic exchange by enhancing the available opportunities for the interaction of competing forms of thought. But, although informed philosophic interaction has in principle become increasingly possible in recent years, the frequency, scope and quality of such discussion has often been less than satisfactory. Contemporary philosophic viewpoints tend not to interact in a Hegelian manner, as complementary aspects of a totally satisfactory and a-perspectival view, facets of a singly and all-embracing true position. Rather, contemporary philosophic viewpoints tend to portray themselves as mutually exclusive alternatives only occasionally willing to acknowledge the possible validity or even the intrinsic interest of other perspectives. Thus, although the multiplication of different forms of philosophy in principle means that there are greater possibilities for meaning­ ful exchange between them, in practice the tendency of each of the various philosophic positions to raise claims to philosophic truth from its point of view alone has had the effect of impeding such interaction.

Parallel Title

Sovietica, vol. 45

Dialectical materialism.

Philosophy (General)

Political science -- Philosophy.

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Book number

by Tom Rockmore, William J. Gavin, James G. Colbert, Thomas J. Blakeley.

James G Colbert

Thomas J Blakeley

Tom Rockmore

William J Gavin

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[Book]

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