-----Original Message----- From: Greg Ransom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, February 12, 2001 9:47 PM Subject: [HAYEK-L:] Sciabarra Seminar -- Total Freedom available from Laissez Faire Books >Sciabarra Seminar, Feb. 26 - March 11 > >Chris Sciabarra's Hayek-L seminar on his recent book _Total Freedom: >Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism_ begins Feb. 26. Sciabarra's book >is available at significant discount from Laissez Faire Books at: > > http://laissezfairebooks.com/product.cfm?op=view&pid=PP8310&aid=10097 > > >Book Description: >An effort to reclaim dialectics as a viable methodology for libertarian >social theory. Building upon his previous books about Marx, Hayek, and Rand, >Total Freedom completes what Lingua Franca has called Sciabarra’s "epic >scholarly quest" to reclaim dialectics, usually associated with the Marxian >left, as a methodology that can revivify libertarian thought. Part One >surveys the history of dialectics from the ancient Greeks through the >Austrian school of economics. Part Two investigates in detail the work of >Murray Rothbard as a leading modern libertarian, in whose thought Sciabarra >finds both dialectical and nondialectical elements. Ultimately, Sciabarra >aims for a dialectical-libertarian synthesis, highlighting the need (not >sufficiently recognized in liberalism) to think of the "totality" of >interconnections in a dynamic system as the way to ensure human freedom >while avoiding "totalitarianism" (such as resulted from Marxism). > >From the Author: >"TOTAL FREEDOM completes the "Dialectics and Liberty" trilogy that began >with MARX, HAYEK, AND UTOPIA (SUNY, 1995), and AYN RAND: THE RUSSIAN RADICAL >(Penn State Press, 1995). The trilogy entails a re-reading of intellectual >history; it focuses on the Aristotelian roots and nature of dialectics and >its relationship to radical theory. More importantly, it highlights the use >of dialectical method by classical liberals and libertarians who have been >constructing a non-Marxist radicalism, one that recognizes the dynamic >interrelationships between the personal and the political, the >psychological, ethical, cultural, and economic. Ultimately, it provides a >foundation for libertarian social theory, one that stresses the necessity of >context -- the "totality" of systemic and dynamic connections among social >problems (hence, "total") that beckon toward fundamentally libertarian >solutions (hence, "freedom")." > >Peter Boettke: >"TOTAL FREEDOM is a first-rate contribution to social theory and the >enduring political project of a free and humane society." > >Don Lavoi: >"TOTAL FREEDOM offers . . . a profoundly radical social perspective . . . a >bold successor to Marxian radicalism . . . Its scholarship is >extraordinary." > >Bertell Ollman: >"Total Freedom offers a convincing demonstation of how crucial a role >dialectics has played in the work of many of our greatest philosophers. No >one interested in dialectics — or in the problems of change and interaction >on which it centers—can afford to miss Sciabarra’s scholarly and >surprisingly lucid history of dialectical thinking." > >Barbara Branden: >"Chris Sciabarra’s Total Freedom is an astonishing work, astonishing in the >depth and breadth of its scholarship, in its evidence of the use of the >dialectic process by philosophers such as Aristotle, in its discovery of >dialectics in the work of economists such as Murray Rothbard, and—most of >all—in the first-handedness of its author. Unlike so many other scholars and >historians, Sciabarra looks at the history of philosophy through his own >eyes and his own understanding. As a result, this beautifully and clearly >written book will make the reader reexamine the history of philosophy and >the history of dialectics by means of a new epistemological perspective: the >perspective of dialectics. Total Freedom is a landmark in philosophical >studies and interpretation." > >Nathaniel Branden: >"In a lucid, scholarily, and daringly original exercise in truly independent >thinking, Chris Sciabarra reclaims the concept of dialectics and makes its >methodology the foundation for a radical defense of 'the libertarian >vision.' In his originality, Sciabarra is a man ahead of his time. He >stimulates us with fresh and provocative perspectives, and challenges us to >join him at the intellectual heights he so persuasively traverses. Must >reading for all those committed to the ideal of a truly free society." > >About the Author: >Chris Matthew Sciabarra is Visiting Scholar at the Department of Politics of >New York University. He is the author of Marx, Hayek, and Utopia (SUNY, >1995) and Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (Penn State, 1995) and co-editor of >Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (Penn State, 1999). He also edits The >Journal of Ayn Rand Studies. > > > >Greg Ransom, Hayek-L list host >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >The Hayek Center & the Hayek-L list are pleased to be Laissez Faire Books >Associates. >