Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

2005-12-06 Thread Ralph Dumain
@lists.econ.utah.edu Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism James was avowedly anti-imperialist. He, like Mark Twain, was involved in the Anti-Imperialist League which opposed the suppression of the Filipino nationalists after the Spanish-American War. . Also the young Max

[Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

2005-12-05 Thread Charles Brown
Dubois studied with pragmatist. CB The Science of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois By Dr. Anthony Monteiro The intellectual high point of DuBois' Harvard years was a fifty-two page handwritten essay entitled The Renaissance of Ethics: A Critical Comparison of Scholastic and Modern Ethics, prepared for a

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

2005-12-05 Thread Ralph Dumain
-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism ... The Science of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois By Dr. Anthony Monteiro MONTEIRO: Pragmatism as articulated by James and later John Dewey held that human knowledge was severely limited to immediate experience. As such the possibilities for changing

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

2005-12-05 Thread andie nachgeborenen
The Science of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois By Dr. Anthony Monteiro MONTEIRO: Pragmatism as articulated by James and later John Dewey held that human knowledge was severely limited to immediate experience. Totally false. Ridiculously ignorant. Only an illiterate or someone who had never

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

2005-12-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 09:30:23 -0800 (PST) andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Science of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois By Dr. Anthony Monteiro MONTEIRO: Pragmatism as articulated by James and later John Dewey held that human knowledge was severely limited to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

2005-12-05 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain There is an earlier posting of an extensive article on Du Bois' intellectual background--you were the one who posted it, maybe? This is very useful info. There is a lot more info on this sort of thing published, since, circa 1990, including considerations of DuBois;

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

2005-12-05 Thread andie nachgeborenen
-Original Message- From: andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 5, 2005 12:30 PM To: Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED], Forum for the discussion of theoretical issues raised by Karl Marx and the thinkers he inspired marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis

[Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

2005-12-05 Thread Charles Brown
Here's an annotation by Ralph ( I think) from his Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Annotated Selected Bibliography http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/pragmabib-a.html Given Ralph's discussion of the racism of some of the progressives of the early 20th Century, Dubois' thinking added in is