Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 16:49:52 +0800
From: Alan Norrie <alan.w.norrie-AT-kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: BHA: Re: Heteronomy (I think!)


Hi Colin,

I'll buy your reconciliation. Wouldn't it be on what RB would term an
analytical account of difference or particularity that there would be an
opposition between John and me?  

As regards your sounding postmodern, I suggested in a mailing before
Christmas on Dialectic (DPF) that Derridean deconstruction could be read as
a form of dialectic, and if you look at Dialectic, it is clear that Bhaskar
sees some links with Derrida on this sort of issue.  

I gave a talk on this recently in London, which, to give a plug, is briefly
reported in the first bulletin of 'Alethia', the forthcoming IACR
Newsletter.  I am sure it's not worth joining IACR just for that, but the
Bulletin as a whole is well worth it, plus it gives, I think, a discount
for the Essex conference.  Details available from the CCR in London.

I think the point is, as Melvyn has just put it, to drive beyond
poststructuralist forms of dialectic.  

Good to know you are getting into the big book.  Time to get going again Gary?

Alan

At 09:13 AM 4/3/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi John and Alan,
>
>It is strange, is it not, that the two answers given, can in some sense be
>construed as diametrically opposed to one another. Alan understands it as
>"difference" and "particularity" - John as "things permeated by their
>relations with others". I suppose one way out of it is to understand it as
>"different  things (particulars) permeated by their relations with others".
>I'm beginning to sound positively postmodern. Still, this is dialectical
>thought after all. (Now there's a thought - the postmoderns as natural
>dialecticians. What was it Foucault said about Hegel; something like, "our
>anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the
>end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.")
>
>Thanks, (and puzzled, in Aberystwyth)
>
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>University of Wales, Aberystwyth
>Tel: (01970) 621769
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