Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 19:28:07 +0800
From: Paul Bains <P.Bains-AT-murdoch.edu.au>
Subject: dialectic


On page 198 of Cinema 1 Deleuze writes of Peirce's firstness, secondness and
thirdness as 'a kind of dialectic; but it is doubtful that the dialectic
includes all these movements...One would say rather that it is an inadequate
interpretation.'

Could someone kind person give me some brief indication of the problem with
Hegel's dialectic. I have never read Hegel so please bear with me and give
an example if possible.

'all problems are dialectical'. Deleuze (DR 164).

I ask because the mysticism thread reminded me of Gurdjieff and 'the law of
three' which appears as a dialectic? I also remember Peter Brook talking to
Al Pacino (in Pacino's King Lear 'docu') about King Lear in terms of a
dialectic.

Affirming, Denying, Reconciling.

Paul.