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Hello Chris. Thanks for your very exciting posts. I must 
confess I have little patience for the 'Rand Co.' trend 
(remeber Fukuyama ?)but your comments so far outline a 
whole new picture. I wonder if you could expand a bit on 
your treatment of the russian philosophical tradition prior 
to Marxism's dominance. What you have said so far sounds 
very interesting indeed. 

Is it possible to find any material, publications or 
whatever, about the trends of thought you describe ?

I'm ging to place my order for your book just now.

With regards,

Oscar Guardiola
King's College, Aberdeen

  
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997 17:20:50 -0500 (EST) "Chris M. 
Sciabarra" <sciabrrc-AT-is2.nyu.edu> wrote:


> On Tue, 11 Nov 1997 MSalter1-AT-aol.com wrote:
> > Chris
> > Could you please say a little more about this russian dialectical tradition?
> > what was their sense of "dialectics", how close to Hegel's? or the
> > Anarchists who were I gather also influence by the early Hegel - particularly
> > re negation!
> > I'm working on a book chapter on the signifiance of dialectics in and for the
> > german legal theory tradition but have little background in the Russian
> > Michael
> 
> I'd be delighted.  Actually, I'm working on my own book dealing at least
> partially with dialectics, and of course, there are many different
> incarnations of dialectics that one finds in the history of thought.  The
> Russian tradition, at least prior to the Marxist dominance in the
> revolutionary era, was deeply influenced by an interesting combination of
> Hegel, Aristotle, and Nietzsche.  The theme that seemed to unite nearly
> all the Russian intellectuals was the revolt against dualism, particularly
> Western modernistic dualisms of mind-body, theory-practice, fact-value,
> morality-prudence, spiritual-material, etc.  There was a deep emphasis on
> organic unity from the time of the Slavophiles and Solovyov, and this
> continued well into the Silver Age, that period from the 1890s till around
> 1924.  Nietzsche's thought made a huge impact on the Silver Age
> neo-idealists, but also on Symbolist writers and Russian Marxists.  One
> can find some of the major doctrines of dialectical discourse on display
> during this period, including a stress on internal relations and a 
> critique of atomism, mechanism, and Kantian subjectivism.
> 
> Interestingly, what most infected the pre-Bolshevik philosophers was the
> mysticism that was endemic to much of Russian culture; the Soviet era
> brought forth a materialism that was almost as virulent as the mysticism
> which preceded it.  What I found most fascinating though, was the
> interplay of Hegelian and Aristotelian concepts of dialectic.  Lossky, who
> was Rand's teacher, was working quite explicitly in this tradition, prior
> to his exile in 1922, along with hundreds of other intellectuals.
> 
> Post-revolution, of course, the Soviet philosophers rigidified much of
> dialectical doctrine, with applications to history and natural science
> that made it more of an ideology than a mode of inquiry.
> 
> Chris
> 
> ==========================================> Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Visiting Scholar
> Faculty of Arts and Science
> New York University Department of Politics
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> New York, New York  10003-6806
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Oscar Guardiola
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