How does the difference in the idea of synthesis play out ?
The only reason I pay attention to Hegel is because of Engels and Marx. Those who refer to Hegel but seem to forget Marxism.... I don't get it. Why is it that a lot of these Derrida types seem to contradict classical Marxism ?
Charles Brown
>>> Catherine Driscoll <cdriscol at arts.adelaide.edu.au> 02/20/99 12:35PM >>>
At 16:05 18/02/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>Aren't Derrida and Irigaray, and Levi-Strauss for that matter, doing
regular old Hegelian dialectics but just plagerizing it ? Any Hegelian
knows that all oppostions are a unity and struggle of opposites, not just
an opposition. Levi-Strauss's binary oppositions are just the beginning of
his process.
I wasn't claiming L-S as a 'deconstructionist'. Derrida is indebted to Hegel yes. The crucial (though not sole) difference is in the idea of synthesis.
Catherine