Lenin as philosopher (was: marxist sociology)

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Sun Feb 24 05:20:06 PST 2002


On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 07:57:57 -0500 Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> writes:
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> On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 04:10:35 +0000 "Justin Schwartz"
> <jkschw at hotmail.com>
> writes:
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> > Does he mention him anywhere? Where does hetalk about which prags?
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> I can't find any specific reference by Garmsci to Peirce but he does
> discuss
> pragmatism a bit in The Prison Notebooks where he writes about
> Marxism's
> influence (or as he phrased the philosophy of praxis' influence) on
> then
> contemporary bourgois philosophy, writing that
> "certain of its elements have been absorbed and incorporated by a
> number
> of
> idealist currents" (e.g., "Croce, Gentile, Sorel, Bergson even,
> pragmatism"). (p. 389).

The relevant passage can be found online at (http://www.columbia.edu/~dylan/marxism/unofficial/Gramsci_Culture.html).


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> Actually it would be somewaht surprising if Gramsci didn't know
> anything
> about American pragamtism since Georges Sorel, whose writings
> Gramsci
> closely read, had written a book on the subject.
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> > jks
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