Marx and Laozi
A Dialectical Synthesis
Published on 4. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVII, 449 pages
978-3-031-40983-7 (ISBN)
Description
In this work the theories of Marx and Laozi are dialectically combined. The resulting synthesis is a positive materialist negation of Hegel's idealist dialectics. Syntheses are presented for Marx and Laozi in ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, scientific method, ethics and politics: the full spectrum of their foundational principles. The book is an attempt to reconstruct a materialist interpretation of Laozi, which can be put to work for Marxist theory.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3 s/w Abbildungen
XVII, 449 p. 3 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-031-40983-7 (9783031409837)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-40981-3
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Book
11/2023
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
James Chambers is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Hebei University, PRC.
Content
Part 1: Introduction.- 1 Reading Strategies For Hegel, Marx & Laozi.- 2. Marx and Laozi: Scientific and Aesthetic Comportments to Predicaments of Social Life.- Part 2 Hegel's Idealism.- 3 Hegel's Idealist Conception of Philosophy.- Part 3. Hegel's Confrontation with Laozi: An Anti-Conceptualist Defence of Laozi Against Hegel.- 4 Hegel's Interpretation of Laozi.- 5 An Anti-Conceptualist Defence of Laozi Against Hegel.- Part 4: Wuwei and Praxis: Aesthetic Mimetic and Scientific Discursive Employment of Concepts.- 6. Wuzhi and Wuwei: The Aesthetic Mimetic Employment of concept.- 7. Praxis: Scientific Discursive Employment of Concepts.- Part 5: Dialectics of Materialism and Wu.- 8. Social Ontology of Materialism and Idealism.- 9. Materialist Dialectics in Capital and Wu.- Part 6. Marx and Laozi: Ethics.- 10. Marx and Laozi's Ethical Naturalism.- 11. Marx and Laozi's Moral Skepticism.- 12. The Means/Ends Dichotomy.- Part 7. Conclusion.- 13. Conclusion.