This is only a fragment of my post. Furthermore, I'm tired of each of my posts bouncing. Perhaps I should just unsubscribe.
-----Original Message----- >From: "farmela...@juno.com" <farmela...@juno.com> >Sent: Dec 23, 2008 12:14 PM >To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu >Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] Korsch revisited (from Ralph Dumain) > > >Well, revisited only briefly, but I will have to make a careful study of Karl >Korsch’s 1923 book Marxism and Philosophy when I can squeeze it into my >reading schedule. These issues are all old now, but they were new then, and >they continue to resurface in our milieu. I’ve just read a few essays by >Korsch on the Marxist Internet Archive and I just want to relate a few >impressions. > > > >I have mixed reactions. On the one hand, Korsch laudably attempts to relate >philosophies as forms of consciousness to moments in social and political >development, opposing the tendency, also purportedly rife within Marxism, as >treating philosophies as detached abstractions at war with one another, such >as the struggle between idealism and materialism. At the same time, Korsch >seems to avoid politicizing philosophy in a way that would suppress its >intellectual content in favor of purely pragmatic political exigencies. It >seems that Korsch consciously opposes both tendencies in order to restore what >he considers to be the original Marxian approach, which finds its precedent in >Hegel. > > > >For example, in a section reproduced from Marxism and Philosophy, Korsch >states: > > > >Hegel wrote that in the philosophic systems of this fundamentally >revolutionary epoch, ‘revolution was lodged and expressed as if in the very >form of their thought’. Hegel’s accompanying statements make it quite clear >that he was not talking of what contemporary bourgeois historians of >philosophy like to call a revolution in thought – a nice, quiet process that >takes place in the pure realm of the study and far away from the crude realm >of real struggles. The greatest thinker produced by bourgeois society in its >revolutionary period regarded a ‘revolution in the form of thought’ as an >objective component of the total social process of a real revolution. Only two >peoples, the German and the French – despite or precisely because of their >contrasts – took part in this great epoch of world history, whose deepest >essence is grasped by the philosophy of history. > >____________________________________________________________ >Click to get free information on Pigeon Forge vacations. >http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/PnY6rw2hpWzMrlKb8K5omGKsWiVZm9KnB1Vg5U8Nq0xPJR1RjnbCB/ > >_______________________________________________ >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 _______________________________________________ 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
