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Tahir Dr Tahir Wood Director: Academic Planning Unit University of the Western Cape Phone (021) 959 3385 Fax (021) 959 3170 e-mail: twood@^$1 >>> petrejo@^$2 06/02/03 07:39PM >>> In response to this Mon02Jun03 post by Omar Lughod: > A thought experiment is not meant

>>> petrejo@^$1 05/29/03 11:09PM >>> we remember that Ludwig Feuerbach never wrote on the topic of politics, which was Marx's main interest. Marx was a critic of politics too, in On the Jewish Question, he specifically derided political emancipation: "But

>>> petrejo@^$1 05/29/03 04:55PM >>> In response to the Thu29May03 post by Tahir Wood: For now it is sufficient to recognize that, for Hegel, even though the Forms of the Ethnic Religions are radically separate and distinct from one another, their

Against my better judgement I cannot help replying to this post and its numerous distortions and unsubstantiated tendentious statements. See below. Tahir >>> petrejo@^$1 05/23/03 06:16PM >>> All these Marxist abstractions have already proven their

>>> pratyushchandra1@^$1 05/29/03 01:44PM >>> It is my firm opinion that this happens with all the social movements which necessarily are ideological movements too - the criticality which marks these movements are systematically wiped out once the

I doubt whether a rigid form/content antinomy can stand up to too much scrutiny. The evidence that we get from so many branches of the hermeneutic sciences (literary theory, discourse analysis, linguistics, historiography, media study, etc.) shows that

>>> greuterb@^$1 03/18/03 10:16PM >>> So we could call Hegel a century man. Quite the reverse with Marx. He was already beyond the concept and criticized its negativity from this viewpoint. He was therefore a child of what will come after, and we could

>>> petrejo@^$1 02/25/03 08:53AM >>> Barbara and Tahir, Your views are already very close to Hegel's, with one difference. You evidently use this identity of Content and difference of Form to *finish* the discourse, while Hegel uses it to *begin* the

Thanks for the useful responses on the topic of abstraction. Tahir [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Hi all I recently read a delightful little text by Hegel called "Who thinks abstractly?" This was very interesting to me from the point of view of my own research interests in the field of linguistics. I wonder if anyone has references for other places