Dialectics for the New Century

This anthology contains some of the more important Marxist thinkers now working on dialectics. As a whole the book is an unusual 'Introduction to Dialectics', a systematic restatement of what it is and how to use it, a survey of most of the main debates in the field, and a good picture of the current state of the art of dialectics.

BERTELL OLLMAN is a Professor of Politics at New York University, and author of Dance of the Dialectics: Steps in Marx's Method, Dialectical Investigations, Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society, among other works. In 2002 Professor Ollman won the first Charles A. McCoy Distinguished Career Award from the New Political Science section of the American Political Science Association.

TONY SMITH is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University. His books include Globalization: A Systematic Marxian Account, Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production, Dialectical Social Theory and its Critics, and The Logic of Marx's Capital.

Introduction	p. 1
Why Dialectics? Why Now?	p. 8
Dialectics and Systems Theory	p. 26
The Dialectics of Nature and Marxist Ecology	p. 50
I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse	p. 83
Dialectics of Emergence	p. 85
The Dialectics of Spacetime	p. 98
Persistencies of the Dialectic: Three Sites	p. 118
The Dialectics of Walking on Two Legs	p. 132
Dialectical Transformations: Teleology, History and Social Consciousness	p. 135
Dialectics and Revolution: Trotsky, Lenin, Lukacs	p. 151
Dialectics and Revolution, Now	p. 163
Towards a Systematic Dialectic of Globalization	p. 179
The Hole in Hegel's Bagel	p. 199
The Dialectic of Capital: An Unoist Interpretation	p. 200
Systematic Dialectic	p. 211
Marxist Feminist Dialectics for the Twenty-first Century	p. 222
Dialectic as Praxis	p. 235
Livant's Cure for Baldness	p. 243
Dialectics and Wisdom	p. 246
Index	p. 260
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