[lbo-talk] "Theory's Empire," an anti-"Theory" anthology

[Charles Brown]

The interesting thing to me is that on the sort of fundamental issue in
dispute - are human activities subject to scientific investigation and
understanding - Jerry agrees with the thinkers who he uses the
denigrating terminology to refer to.  Jerry and the post/structuralists
and postmodernists are philosophical idealists, in the Marxist
categories. Those who say there is and can be no social _science_ are
philosophical idealists.The real dispute here is between idealists and
materialists.  Foucault , Butler and Monaco are on the same side in that
dispute. The claim that politics, history, law, literature et al can
only be understood "humanistically" is philosophical idealism, in the
sense that Marx and Engels use that analytical category. By the way,
positivism reduces to philosophical idealism, as Lenin demonstrates in
_Materialism and Empirio-Criticism_

Charles


>>> Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> 06/02/08 3:18 PM >>>

It kinda amazes me that Jerry writes what is possibly
the most well-thought-out post that has appeared on
here in months, which probably took maybe an hour to
write, and people start dumping on him.

Or maybe I'm just taking his side since he changed his
mind about my man Heidegger. :)

--- Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:


> At 12:00 PM 6/2/2008, Jerry Monaco wrote:
> 
> 
> >You moderate me for saying a phrase like this but
> not someone who says
> >something along the lines of  >  "_shut up shuttin'
> up already since you're
> >being a ridiculous fuckheaded bore."  And similar
> things that she said to
> >Ravi which chased him away?
> 
> 
> You in touch with Ravi?  How do you know why he
> left?  
> 
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