books about: dialectical     books:       Beyond Capital : Toward a Theory of Transition1 review Istvan Meszaros Monthly Review Press, 1995 our instrumentality in the sickness of the totality If the author isn't a genius, and I'll say he is, he at least has the elements of genius at his disposal. He has read, of both the good and the bad, and this book is an expression of his bioligical and spiritual drive to let us know about the variables we are dealing with in our project to kill pain and feel pleasure, enhance cognition and engage sensuality. Everyone who's brain's structure is ...             Search for a method3 reviews Jean Paul Sartre Knopf, 1967 The Dawn of Marxist Existentialism As the quote on the cover suggests, this may very well be "the most important work of Sartre's to be translated since Being and Nothingness." To be sure, The Critique of Dialectical Reason may be also, or even The Family Idiot. But it must also be recalled that Search for a Method, while first published as an occasional piece for a Czech journal, was latter published as the introduction to The ...             Algebra of Revolution1 review Taylor & Francis, 2007 Rescuing the Real Marxist Tradition John Rees' book is essential reading for anyone who wants a clear yet rigorous treatment of the often misunderstood concept of dialectics in the Marxist tradition. Rees takes the reader from the dialectic's modern origins in the German idealist philosopher Hegel, Marx and Engels'recasting the dialectic in materialist terms through twentieth century dialecticians Lukacs, Lenin and Trotsky. ...             Karl Marx and the Intellectual Origins of Dialectical Materialism2 reviews James D. White Palgrave Macmillan, 1996 A Provocative Book White's book is quite important. While recognizing the considerable influence of Hegel on Marx, it doesn't stop there. It asks how that influence changed. It finds a very substantial diminution from 1865 on. It also shows why Marx, after publishing the first volume of "Capital", went on to learn Russian and study Russia; that his own 'marxism' was in fact much in advance of what later became ...             Introduction to the Logic of Marxism4 reviews Pathfinder Pr, 1969 The logic of revolutionary change George Novack claims in the beginning of the book that, "in fighting against the mad chaos of capitalism for a socialist system free from class exploitation and oppression, wars, crises, imperialist enslavement and barbarism, we Marxists are the most reasonable individuals alive." The book begins by explaining the necessity for revolutionists to ground their strategy in a materialist, ...             Reason in Revolt: Dialectical Philosophy and Modern Science5 reviews Ted Grant, Alan Woods Algora Publishing, 2002 The materialist dialectic updated, and intelligible When I was a graduate student in Philosophy the academic line was that Engels's writings on dialectical materialsim were of purely historical interest. His examples of the dialectical nature of material reality reflected the limits of scientific knowledge of the late-19th century, at best. Well, Ted Grant and Alan Woods have written a book that not only makes the basic "laws of the dialectic" ...             Beyond Capitalism Toward Nomocracy1 review Tryphon Kostopoulos Praeger Publishers, 1986 Smashingly creative analysis, worthy of much greater notice! This is a fabulous book that reworks the theoretical foundations of Marxism to come up with an original and intellectually satisfying framework for societal evolution. In particular, the conclusions of this framework are very refreshing in their repudiation of both Marxist and capitalist ideologies, and in hinting at what lies behind and beyond the upheavals of the world today. A must-read for ...             Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents2 reviews Alec L. Miller, Jill H. Rathus, ... The Guilford Press, 2006 A must have This book is wonderful when working within the DBT model with teenaged clients. It addressed issues specific to the adolescent population.             The dialectical imagination: A history of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, ...5 reviews Martin Jay Heinemann, 1973 Indispensable Introduction to the Frankfurt School 28 years after its initial publication, Martin Jay's "The Dialectical Imagination" is still the best introduction and most indispensable guide to the Frankfurt School's history and thinkers. Jay can easily be forgiven his occasional historiographer's dryness and insistent reminders of the boundaries of his project (I would be a rich man if I had a nickel for every time he writes that "such ...             The High Conflict Couple: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy, & Validation7 reviews Alan E., Ph.D. Fruzzetti New Harbinger Publications, 2006 analytically oriented help for conflict-prone couples High Conflict Couple is a concise, easy to understand guide for couples seeking to deepen their relationship and ease their conflicts. Its tone is a bit crisper, cooler, and more analytical than most marriage guides. This is actually its strength, speaking to the analytical half of your relationship in a straight-forward way they will appreciate and understand even if they shy away from ...             Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health1 review Richard Levins Monthly Review Press, 2007 biology under the influence this is a collection of essays by two of America's leading biologists. It is generally written for the general public, although some of the essays are a bit more technical. On the whole, Lewontin and Levins succeed in providing a comprehensive picture of some of the leading debates in the field, notably, the relevance of molecular biology and evolutionary thought for issues such as education and ...             The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide1 review Alex Chapman, Kim Gratz New Harbinger Publications, 2007 An important, forward-thinking, much welcome book As someone diagnosed with BPD, I have done a lot of research on the condition, both online and by reading any book written on the subject. Many of those books (except for BPD Demystified)are extremely outdated, even if they're only a few years old. And many of them were disappointedly irresponsible, being quite negative and insisting that the prognosis was always dire and/or perpetuating the huge ...             Dialectical Materialism and Modern Science1 review Kenneth Neill Cameron International Publishers, 1994 Michael Joseph Francisconi Kenneth Neil Cameron Wrote One of the user-friendliest explanations of Dialectical materialism I have ever read. Beginning with a historical overview of the evolution of philosophical materialism and how it relates the history of science. Then he explains how this underpinning of the methodology used by Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, and V.I. Lenin in the Science of Society. He explores both the ...             Dance of the Dialectic: STEPS IN MARX'S METHOD1 review Bertell Ollman University of Illinois Press, 2003 Great insight on Marx's thought process I enjoyed Dance of the Dialectic and did a presentation on it in my Marxism class. It goes in-depth into how Marx thinks, how he uses terminalogy, how he comes up with his different terms, and explains the basis behind how Marx comes up with his theories using the dialectic. I was asked a question during my presentation of whether this was Ollman's interpretation of Marx dialectic or basically ...             Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume One. [Subtitle]: Translated by AlanSheridan-Smith. Edited by Jonathan ...1 review Jean-Paul. Sartre Publisher Unknown, 2004 Sartre's Inimitable Greatness - One response to the above reviews Sartre was primarily a moral philosopher - not a metaphysician, epistemologist, or political philosopher. Yet, he was a bit of all these. He is a political thinker by way of his profoundly thought moral philosophy. Thus, I claim: 1) While it may be his last extensive philosophic work, Sartre's CDR is not his "last great philosophic work" - big is not always best. The tragically neglected, "Saint ...             Boethius's "in Ciceronis Topica" an Annotated Translation/Medieval Dialectical Text1 review Boethius, Eleonore Stump Cornell University Press, 1988 An Important Contribution to the Scholarship of Classical Logic Professor Stump's translation of the In Ciceronis Topica, by Boethius, deserves high praise, not only because it makes available to English readers an important Latin treatise on the logic of the topics, but also because of its erudition and bountiful notes and explanations of this somewhat arcane (at least to modern readers) part of classical logic. Boethius stood (c. 500 AD) at the cusp ...             Dialectical Urbanism1 review Andy Merrifield Monthly Review Press, 2002 A studious and insightful presentation Dialectical Urbanism: Social Struggle In The Capitalist City by Andy Merrifield (Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, Massachussets), is a scholarly and well reasoned extrapolation of considerable scholarship and erudite political thought. Individual chapters analyze the urbanization of labor, New York's housing crisis, the quality of everyday life in a densely packed ...             Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture: An Ethnomethodological Inquiry into Formal Reasoning1 review Harold Garfinkel Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004 Innovative Sociology of Buddhist Debating Practice Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture: An Ethnomethodological Inquiry into Formal Reasoning by Kenneth Liberman, (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) Tibetan Buddhist scholar-monks have long engaged in face-to-face public philosophical debates. This original study challenges Orientalist text-based scholarship, which has missed these lived practices of Tibetan dialectics. Kenneth ...             Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses1 review Howard Hampton Harvard University Press, 2008 Screams out against lifelessness and the will to demean... Howard Hampton's "Born In Flames," is so vividly written, each sentence like a crazed aphorism on some bleak American-gothic apocalypse just this side of redemption-via-imagination, a creatural re-imagining beyond the blood darkness, effluvia, and debris of our times and ordinary lives. One could study how to write essays and to organize cultural collections around wild tropes by such a book. Not ...             Dialectical Materialism: Its Laws, Categories, and Practice1 review Ira Gollobin Petras Pr, 1992 Lucid, yet comprehensive presentation of dailectics. One of the finest presentations of Dailectical Materialism I have so far read. The presentation starts with various aspects of dialectics and materialism that were captured and perfected by the human race since the transformation of early humanoid into human, by labor and struggle with nature. 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