Re: [Pen-l] Moishe Postone

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Shane Mage wrote:
> I don't quite agree.  Marx, I believe, used the term  Critique (Kritik) in
> an entirely *Kantian* sense, going through the contradictions of political
> economy to clarify the rational kernel of its fundamental presuppositions as
> Kant did in his three critiques (of Judgment, Practical Reason, and Pure
> Reason).  Just as Hegel erected the "Philosophical Sciences" on the
> underlying basis of the Kantian critiques, so Marx undertook the
> (never-to-be-completed) construction of a new Economic Science on the basis
> of his accomplished critique.

I think we do agree, since I was using the word "critique" in a
non-Kantian way. The folks who emphasize the "critique of political
economy" in lieu of actually doing political economy use the word this
way, too.
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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