File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_1997/bhaskar.9710, message 31


From: MSalter1-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 15:59:17 -0400 (EDT)
To: bhaskar-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: BHA: Re: dialectic arguments vs deconstructive ones


In a message dated 08/10/97 17:09:38 GMT, Colin writed:

<< On the issue of avoiding dualism's and the similarity of MS's para to
 deconstructive accounts of critique. There is still the small matter of
 whether a deconstructive (or dialectic, for that matter) critique actually
 avoids them or merely claims to. I find the pomos argue a good argument and
 that they claim to have rejected the idealism/realism dichotomy, only to
 relapse into rampant (my fave word at the moment) monistic idealism. 
  >>
Dialectics - in my selective view of it - attempts to think through some of
the contradictory implications of unreflexively determining dichtomies,
subject / object, realist / irrealist, etc, as much as it can. Insofar as
deconstructionist reinstate the very dichtomioes they purport to have
displaced/deconstructed, then this amounts to an immanent critique of the
self-contradictions of deconstruction, not that of dialectics as such
(although dialectical thought can and usually does fail since that which is
is negated remains negative until it is practically overcome.

Michael


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