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 --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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