Change, Cause, and Contradiction
Author: Robin Le Poidevin
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780312057862
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Author: Robin Le Poidevin
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780312057862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robin Le
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1990-11-23
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 134921146X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gisela Febel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-04-05
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 3658377844
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Contradiction” is a core concept in the humanities and the social sciences. Beside the classical ideas of logical or dialectical contradiction, instances of “lived” contradiction and strategies of coping with it are objects of this study. Contradiction Studies discuss the many ways in which explicit or implicit contradictions are negotiated in different political or cultural settings. This volume collects articles that tackle the concept of contradiction, practices of contradicting and lived contradictions from a number of relevant perspectives and assembles contributions from linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, political science, and media studies.
Author: Melinda Marie Hyatt
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 14
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Diana Stuart
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2020-07-17
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 0472038478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClimate Change Solutions represents an application of critical theory to examine proposed solutions to climate change. Drawing from Marx’s negative conception of ideology, the authors illustrate how ideology continues to conceal the capital-climate contradiction or the fundamental incompatibility between growth-dependent capitalism and effectively and justly mitigating climate change. Dominant solutions to climate change that offer minor changes to the current system fail to address this contradiction. However, alternatives like degrowth involve a shift in priorities and power relations and can offer new systemic arrangements that confront and move beyond the capital-climate contradiction. While there are clear barriers to a systemic transition that prioritizes social and ecological well-being, such a transition is possible and desirable.
Author: Todd McGowan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2019-05-28
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 023154992X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel’s thought as a resource for contemporary politics. What does a notoriously difficult nineteenth-century German philosopher have to offer the present? How should we understand Hegel, and what does understanding Hegel teach us about confronting our most urgent challenges? In this book, Todd McGowan offers us a Hegel for the twenty-first century. Simultaneously an introduction to Hegel and a fundamental reimagining of Hegel’s project, Emancipation After Hegel presents a radical Hegel who speaks to a world overwhelmed by right-wing populism, authoritarianism, neoliberalism, and economic inequalities. McGowan argues that the revolutionary core of Hegel’s thought is contradiction. He reveals that contradiction is inexorable and that we must attempt to sustain it rather than overcoming it or dismissing it as a logical failure. McGowan contends that Hegel’s notion of contradiction, when applied to contemporary problems, challenges any assertion of unitary identity as every identity is in tension with itself and dependent on others. An accessible and compelling reinterpretation of an often-misunderstood thinker, this book shows us a way forward to a new politics of emancipation as we reconcile ourselves to the inevitability of contradiction and find solidarity in not belonging.
Author: Torkil Lauesen
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Published: 2020-07-07
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781989701034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Principal Contradiction, Torkil Lauesen introduces readers to the philosophy of dialectical materialism as a tool for changing the world. Dialectical materialism allows us to understand the dynamics of world history and to draw practical conclusions, with the concept of contradiction building a bridge between theory and practice. This is not just a valuable tool with which to analyze complex relationships: it also tells us how to intervene.Lauesen explores the historical origins of dialectical materialism, focusing at first on the European context in which Hegel was famously turned on his head, then introducing the subsequent contributions made by Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Mao. Drawing on his own decades of experience as an anti-imperialist, Lauesen shows how dialectical materialism can be employed as a method to understand the past five hundred years of capitalist history, how contradictions internal to European capitalism led to colonialism and genocide in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, as all humanity was brought into a single exploitative world system. The historical record is used to show how contradictions interact with one another and how a correct understanding of the principal contradiction is critical to formulating a correct strategy.
Author: Georg Henrik von Wright
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 31
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vivian Jerauld McGill
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip Halpern
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Published: 1998
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe practice of modern portfolio theory and large shifts to professional money management exemplifly two contradictory trends. The attempt by plan sponsors to resolve this paradox is the driving force behind the investment management firm restructurings now taking place. Firms that recognize what is happening will be the firms to achieve business success in the future.