Re: Hayek. Why???

["Ricardo Duchesne" <rduchesn@xxxxxxxx>]

> >but Cohen's 1978 book is far from orthodox, or determinist in the old
> >Marxist sense.
>
> he uses the hifalutin' method of analytic philosophy to reproduce the worst
> Marxist determinism (which was _never_ totally deterministic).

He was trying to combat synthetic mush; and the fact is that he later
called for a "restricted historical materialism", one which
would acknowledged the autonomous significance of religious
and national ideas/feelings.

> Michael, this guy deserves to be on pen-l much less than Neil does. But
> neither of them need to be tossed off the list.

Way I see it is that when you find someone in your soup everyday
you're tempted to take some offensive shots at them.


> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>