To some extent the analytic/continental divide was reproduced within Marxism. In eastern Europe during the 1960s and 1970s sophisticated academic Marxist philosophers tended to look towards either continental philosophy or towards analytic philosophy. For example in Poland, starting after 1956, there emerged humanist interpretations of Marxism such as Leszek Kolakowski's which emphasized the writings of the "young Marx" and which drew upon phenomenology and existentialism in interpreting them. By the 1960s this approach to Marxist philosophy gained official status when Adam Schaff, who was the "house philosopher" of the Polish CP, endorsed it.
On the other hand, there also emerged in the 1960s and 1970s the Poznan School which drew upon the analytic philosophy of the Lwów-Warsaw School in the interpretation of Marxism. The Poznan School, among other things, developed an adaptationist version of historical materialism that was not unlike the one that G.A. Cohen and his fellow Analytical Marxists were developing at roughly the same time. It is my understanding that parallel developments in academic Marxist philosophy took place in other eastern European countries during the same time period too. Jim F. -- CeJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heidegger sees logical positivism as the culmination > of a project begun with Descartes, "a mode of thinking according to > which truth is no longer disclosedness of what is and thus > accommodation of grounding of Dasein in the disclosing being, but > truth is rather diverted into certainty--to the mere securing of > thought, and in fact the securing of mathematical thought against all > that is not thinkable by it." (22) That was interesting because it explains the so-called analytic vs. continental division in basically 'Germanic' terms. I would say, though, Heidegger is reacting more to the attention that logical positivism was getting among intellectuals. The breaks occur way before. See, for example, the exchanges between Frege and Husserl. One reason why Wittgenstein intrigues so many is he moved across the analytic and the continental 'traditions', baffling the logical positivists. Rorty seemed original to people in the analytic tradition mostly because he didn't devalue continental philosophy and understood it better than most of his peers. Is it too much to say, though, that German-language analytics were largely absorbed by the US and UK? I find the distinction between analytic and continental traditions rather useless for engaging philosophy seriously (much of Marxist political philosophy never fit into either rough category), but it can be used to help explain, for example, what happened in linguistics after the structuralists. It doesn't mean that there are two schools of linguistics, but the various schools can be traced back to these two usually diverging streams of thought. C _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis ____________________________________________________________ Smart Girls Secret Weapon Read Unbiased Beauty Product Reviews, Get Helpful Tips, Tricks and Sam http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/JKFkuJi7U3x0B0zlS2q9CrSprLvPY3Tmi9cMBhEm2YIgMDWQgo8AUJ/ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
