Re: Re: Re: Marx's materialism

["Mathew Forstater" <forstate@xxxxxxxx>]

Interesting, because Krader's work on nomadic pastoralists is also
excellent.

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From: Rod Hay <rodhay@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Monday, April 03, 2000 7:31 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:17694] Re: Re: Marx's materialism


>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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