The Dialectics of Nature and Marxist Ecology

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23199751
AutoresJohn Bellamy Foster (0000-0001-7418-3004, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Páginas50-82
Fecha de publicación2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaDialectics for the New Century (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230583818_4
OpenAlexW2488558917
ISBN9780230583818
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas19

For 'Western Marxism' — a term introduced by Maurice Merleau-Ponty in 1955 in his Adventures of the Dialectic (1973) to describe the philosophical tendency stemming from Georg Lukács' History and Class Consciousness (1971; originally published in 1923) — no concept internal to Marxism has been more antithetical to the genuine development of historical materialism than the 'dialectics of nature'. Commonly attributed to Engels rather than Marx, this concept is often seen as the differentia specifica that beginning in the 1920s separated the official Marxism of the Soviet Union from Western Marxism. Yet, as Lukács, who played the leading role in questioning the concept of the dialectic of nature, was later to admit, Western Marxism's rejection of it struck at the very heart of the classical Marxist ontology — that of Marx no less than Engels.KeywordsHistorical MaterialismHuman PraxisClass ConsciousnessDialectical MaterialismMetabolic RelationThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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