Marxism and Logic and Science and Comic Books

[Charles Jannuzi]

>The German word is Wissenschaft, >and it mean disciplined, systematic
>knowledge, thus, Hegel's Science >of Logic (the Greater Logic). It >didn't
have the narrower sense >that the word science does for us >today, with the
implication that it >empirically guided quantitative >research into natural
or
>social phenomena. However, I think >our present discusccoion is not >into
what Marx or Engels of more >or less cultivated late 19th century >Germans
may or
>may not have meant, but whether >there is any point now in saying >that
Marxian thinking is scientific >in a sense that is meaningful to us >today.
At least that is what I was >going on about.

Notice how the science word crops up again in that recent Negri post. Maybe
there is something to what I earlier said about how those in the Continental
traditions use it differently--and it probably goes back to the break over
Hegel.

Charles Jannuzi