Re: Re: Marx's materialism

[Rod Hay <rodhay@xxxxxxxxxx>]

And I must forceably put forward the work of Lawrence Krader.

The Dialectics of Civil Society
Treatise of Social Labor

as the most significant outline of Marxist materialism in the second half of the
twentieth century.

Rod

Mathew Forstater wrote:

> Louis:
>
> >This is the first attempt I've seen on or off the Internet to
> >make an amalgam between Marx and Whitehead
>
> Russell Kleinbach, 1982, _Marx Via Process: Whitehead's Potential
> Contribution to Marxian Social Theory_, D.C.: University Press of America.
>
> Also, not Whitehead, but what I consider a complementary project:
>
> Roslyn Wallach Bologh, 1979, _Dialectical Phenomenology: Marx's Method_,
> London: Routledge.
>
> and the very good:
>
> David Sallach, 1973, "Class Consciousness and the Everyday World in the Work
> of Marx & Schutz," _The Insurgent Sociologist_, 3, 4, pp. 27-37.
>
> And:
>
> Barry Smart, 1976, _Sociology, Phenomenology, and Marxian Analysis_, London:
> Routledge.
>
> If we're serious about grappling with these issues, I believe we must also
> go back to:
>
> Vygotsky, L.S, 1934, _Thought and Language_, Cambridge: MIT Press.
>
> and
>
> Voloshinov, V. N., 1930, _Marxism and the Philosophy of Language_, New York:
> Seminar Press.
>
> Finally:
>
> Kenneth A. Megill, "Peirce and Marx" _Transactions of the Charles Sanders
> Peirce Society_, V. III, No. 2, Fall 19xx? (sorry, can't read the date
> properly).
>
> It was Peter Rigby who insisted to me that developing a Marxian
> Phenomenology be an absolutely necessary part of the Marxist project.  His
> _Persistent Pastoralists: Nomadic Societies in Transition_, 1985, Zed Press
> is one of the most important books I've ever read, not only for its
> excellent Marxist analysis of a precapitalist social formation in general
> and the Maasai "predicament" in particular, but for its methodological
> discussion (attempt to begin to develop a Marxist phenomenology). See also
> his _Cattle, capitalism, and class: Ilparakuyo Maasai transformations,
> Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992, and _African images: racism and
> the end of anthropology_, Oxford ; Washington, D.C.: Berg, 1996.
>
> It's scary- I'm getting old enough to make going back to my dissertation
> bibliography nostalgic.  Louis- wasn't this what you were also doing once at
> the Graduate Faculty of the New School??
>
> My question is: does anyone know of any work that attempts to relate Marx to
> Hartshorne?

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