Date: Tue, 9 Aug 1994 16:50:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Philip Goldstein <pgold-AT-strauss.udel.edu> Subject: Hegel/Marx Gene says that we should keep the political-economic kernel but throw away the Hegelian shell of Marxist theory. My organic metaphors don't fully state the problem with this view, which is that the political-economic content has no life independent of its Hegelian form. To extract the content, you have to restate it, and that restatement gives it a new form. I know that you have argued strenuously, Gene, that the LTV is a valuable basis for critique, but what kind of critique is this? Doesn't it reinstate the Hegelian totality which you claim to reject? I have a similar problem with the Habermas stuff. The explanation of Habermas was very informative, but the issue of the kind of critique presupposed by Habermas remains an issue. Phil "Many Faces" Goldstein ------------------
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