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Hegel, Heraclitus, and Marx's dialectic by Howard Williams, (Howard L.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hegel, Heraclitus, and Marx's dialectic about?
The objectives of this book are threefold. The first, historical, objective is to demonstrate where the idea of dialectic enters into the work of Heraditus, Hegel and Marx and to show what function it performs for them. The second, philosophical, objec-tive is to provide an assessment of the worth of the use they make of dialectic and to criticize this use where necessary. The third, methodological, objective is to present and defend what I think is valuable in the dialectic and to recommend some fields in which it might profitably be employed. These objectives are, of course, closely interrelated but all three represent equally valid angles from which to approach the problem of dialectic. Those of histor-ical bent will want to know what precisely dialectic meant for its main practitioners; those of a philosophical bent will want to know what sense we can make of the logic of dialectic; and those of a methodological bent will want to know what we can make of the dialectic in our scientific, historical and social enquiries. I hope not to have set myself too ambitious a task in trying to interest all three types of reader. One of the main themes of this book is to demonstrate how Mar
Who reads Hegel, Heraclitus, and Marx's dialectic?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Howard Williams, (Howard L.)
- Publisher
- Harvester Wheatsheaf
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312031619
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, History, Humanities