Dialectics for the New CenturyBertell Ollman, T. Smith This anthology contains some of the more important Marxist thinkers now working on dialectics. As a whole the book is an unusual 'Introduction to Dialectics', a systematic restatement of what it is and how to use it, a survey of most of the main debates in the field, and a good picture of the current state of the art of dialectics. |
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List of Contributors | 1 |
Why Dialectics? Why Now? | 8 |
Dialectics and Systems Theory | 26 |
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