Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 23:27:25 -0800 From: Ralph Dumain <rdumain-AT-igc.apc.org> Subject: THEODORE OIZERMAN - MARXIST PHILOSOPHY In rummaging through my books recently as part of my endeavor to construct the bibliography I recently uploaded, I came across something of interest I had never read before: DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM AND THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY by Theodore Oizerman (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1982). Much to my surprise, I found some good stuff in this book, esp. in section 1, on problems in treating the history of philosophy, esp. problems in Hegel's treatment of history of philosophy. Throughout the book, the author's great strength is pinpointing the deleterious intellectual consequences that inevitably follow from idealism. Why then be surprised? Well, it is true that if nothing else, the Soviet philosophers were always adept at rousting out idealism, but I never wanted to read anything they wrote about the history of anything, because so many of them were such liars as befits the entire Stalinist heritage. But instead of finding the lies I was accustomed to in other sovietsky pap, I actually found some intelligent stuff here. What a pleasant surprise. Oizerman wrote some other books which were translated into English. I don't have any of them. I am interested in anything treating of the history of philosophy. Among those I am most interested in Oizerman's THE MAKING OF THE MARXIST PHILOSOPHY, which was recommended years ago but which I never bought simply assuming it would lie about Marx. Has anybody read this tome, and if so, what do you think of it? Thoroughness and accuracy? In how much detail and thoroughness does it treat of Marx's entire experience of and relation to philosophy from student years on? Ie. Marx's relation not just to Hegelian dialectics, but to Epicurus, Fichte, the whole shmear? --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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