Dance of the Dialectic: STEPS IN MARX'S METHOD

Bertell Ollman has been hailed as "this country's leading authority on dialectics and Marx's method" by Paul Sweezy, the editor of Monthly Review and dean of America's Marx scholars. In this book Ollman offers a thorough analysis of Marx's use of dialectical method. Marx made extremely creative use of dialectical method to analyze the origins, operation, and direction of capitalism. Unfortunately, his promised book on method was never written, so that readers wishing to understand and evaluate Marx's theories, or to revise or use them, have had to proceed without a clear grasp of the dialectic in which the theories are framed. The result has been more disagreement over "what Marx really meant" than over the writings of any other major thinker. 
In putting Marx's philosophy of internal relations and his use of the process of abstraction--two little-studied aspects of dialectics--at the center of this account, Ollman provides a version of Marx's method that is at once systematic, scholarly, clear and eminently useful. 
Ollman not only sheds important new light on what Marx really meant in his varied theoretical pronouncements, but in carefully laying out the steps in Marx's method makes it possible for a reader to put the dialectic to work in his or her own research. He also convincingly argues the case for why social scientists and humanists as well as philosophers should want to do so.

Politics & Social Sciences

Ollman, Bertell

Philosophy

University of Illinois Press

Bertell Ollman has been hailed as "this country's leading authority on dialectics and Marx's method" by Paul Sweezy, the editor of Monthly Review and dean of America's Marx scholars. In this book Ollman offers a thorough analysis of Marx's use of dialectical method. Marx made extremely creative use of dialectical method to analyze the origins, operation, and direction of capitalism. Unfortunately, his promised book on method was never written, so that readers wishing to understand and evaluate Marx's theories, or to revise or use them, have had to proceed without a clear grasp of the dialectic in which the theories are framed. The result has been more disagreement over "what Marx really meant" than over the writings of any other major thinker. In putting Marx's philosophy of internal relations and his use of the process of abstraction--two little-studied aspects of dialectics--at the center of this account, Ollman provides a version of Marx's method that is at once systematic, scholarly, clear and eminently useful. Ollman not only sheds important new light on what Marx really meant in his varied theoretical pronouncements, but in carefully laying out the steps in Marx's method makes it possible for a reader to put the dialectic to work in his or her own research. He also convincingly argues the case for why social scientists and humanists as well as philosophers should want to do so.

Approaching the humanities from a Marxist perspective raises new questions that demand new answers. In this second volume of The Left Academy. Seven eminent scholars address the impact of Marxist analysis on the humanities. They provide readers with an overview of the main social, political, and intellectual influences on their disciplines and they outline ongoing debates within Marxist circles and between Marxists and their opponents. Each paper in the collection concludes with a lengthy bibliography of books, articles, and journals written from a Marxist perspective. These up-to-date listings constitute an invaluable reference guide to contemporary Marxist scholarship in the United States.

The Left Academy: Marxist Scholarship on American Campuses. Volume Two

Vernoff, Edward

Praeger

The Left Academy

Politics & Government

Praeger Publishers

With today's conservative mood on university and college campuses, academics and students will find The Left Academy a useful reference to the current state of Marxist thought. This book explores Marxism in the social sciences and applied sociology fields such as social work and health. The Left Academy features essays that analyze the state of Marxism in various academic disciplines by a well-known scholar in that discipline. In addition to the essays, this third volume includes a summary of Marxism―where it stands today and where it may go in the future. Students, academics, and general readers will find the book thought-provoking.

The Left Academy: Marxist Scholarship on American Campuses, Volume Three

Business & Money

Economics

With today's conservative mood on university and college campuses, academics and students will find The Left Academy a useful reference to the current state of Marxist thought. This book explores Marxism in the social sciences and applied sociology fields such as social work and health. The Left Academy features essays that analyze the state of Marxism in various academic disciplines by a well-known scholar in that discipline. In addition to the essays, this third volume includes a summary of Marxism--where it stands today and where it may go in the future. Students, academics, and general readers will find the book thought-provoking.

The Left Academy: Marxist Scholarship on American Campuses; Volume Three

Dialectical Investigations

"Dialectical Investigations" offers students a basic introduction to dialectics as well as a challenging exposition of its application to a wide range of social and historical phenomena. Bertell Ollman aims to show why dialectics is essential to understanding - and criticizing - Marx, and in turn, to understanding our world. He provides six in-depth case studies of dialectical method in action.

Routledge

"Dialectical Investigations" offers students a basic introduction to dialectics as well as a challenging exposition of its application to a wide range of social and historical phenomena. Bertell Ollman aims to show why dialectics is essential to understanding - and criticizing - Marx, and in turn, to understanding our world. He provides six in-depth case studies of dialectical method in action.

Market Socialism: The Debate Among Socialist

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Schweickart, David

Ticktin, Hillel

Lawler, James

In this book, the most thorough account of Marxâ€™s theory of alienation yet to have appeared in English, Professor Ollman reconstructs the theory from its constituent parts and offers it as a vantage point from which to view the rest of Marxism. The book further contains a detailed examination of Marxâ€™s philosophy of internal relations, the much neglected logical foudation of his method, and provides a systematic account of Marxâ€™s conception of human nature. Because of its almost unique concern with helping readers understand Marxâ€™s unusual use of language, Alienation has proven very popular in university courses on Marxism on both undergraduate and graduate levels. The first edition was widely reviewed, and in this new edition Professor Ollman replies to his critics in â€˜More on internal relations,â€™ published here as Appendix II. In addition to this new appendix the author now provides a more systematic discussion of Marxâ€™s theory of ideology, elements of which were formerly dispersed throughout the book. He also attempts to set the treatment of political alienation within the broader framework of Marxâ€™s theory of the state as a model of how an approach based on internal relations can be used to integrate various apparently contradictory interpretations of Marxâ€™s views.

Alienation

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Cambridge University Press

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Dance of the Dialectic: STEPS IN MARX'S METHOD

Dance of the Dialectic: STEPS IN MARX'S METHOD

The Left Academy: Marxist Scholarship on American Campuses. Volume Two

The Left Academy

The Left Academy: Marxist Scholarship on American Campuses, Volume Three

The Left Academy: Marxist Scholarship on American Campuses; Volume Three

Dialectical Investigations

Dialectical Investigations

Market Socialism: The Debate Among Socialist

Alienation