hi ibrahim
i don't agree with your reaction. maybe it's because i have such respect for marx as a thinker, for derrida in inevoking the spirit of marx as core for progressive historical and philosophical thinking. but more than that, it is the way marx is positioned below against hegel and the idealist tradition that goes back to plato. it is important that it is exchanges and transactions that he cites, opening us to the world of the material economic base and the superstructure of culture; it is significant that he presents it as accommodation instead of conflict, whereas in a marxist context conflict, contradiction, dialectical opposition would seem to be prioritized; and finally, how this ends with a teleological claim, "evolution of our world," which i would imagine is the weakest part of the sentence, and which i would strongly oppose.
i didn't get any of this stuff in high school, but that's not saying much where my history classes weren't amazing, and they never even dreamed that it would be necessary to teach us kids philosophy.
ken
i don't agree with your reaction. maybe it's because i have such respect for marx as a thinker, for derrida in inevoking the spirit of marx as core for progressive historical and philosophical thinking. but more than that, it is the way marx is positioned below against hegel and the idealist tradition that goes back to plato. it is important that it is exchanges and transactions that he cites, opening us to the world of the material economic base and the superstructure of culture; it is significant that he presents it as accommodation instead of conflict, whereas in a marxist context conflict, contradiction, dialectical opposition would seem to be prioritized; and finally, how this ends with a teleological claim, "evolution of our world," which i would imagine is the weakest part of the sentence, and which i would strongly oppose.
i didn't get any of this stuff in high school, but that's not saying much where my history classes weren't amazing, and they never even dreamed that it would be necessary to teach us kids philosophy.
ken
On 12/26/13 9:24 AM, Ibrahim Abdullah wrote:
Do u really need to evoke Marx re the centrality of human agency in history? This is high school stuff not even HS 101.
---On Dec 26, 2013 2:12 PM, "Oluwatoyin Adepoju"<tovadepoju@gmail.com> wrote:--An Irele sentence'For if, as Karl Marx has observed (in The Holy Family), human beings are the real source of history and not an impersonal principle, it is the myriad forms of exchange and transactions between peoples and races, either in situations of conflict or, as is more often the case, as strategies of accommodation to each other, that have everywhere and over the ages determined the evolution of our world.'A quintessential Irele paragraph, in the range of knowledge it is resting on, its evocation of vast possibilities, while remaining a precise expression of a specific idea or ideas, constitutes a research project.Distinguished Lecture Series feat. Professor Francis Abiola Irele: "Cultural Encounters and the African Experience"--On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Oluwatoyin Adepoju <tovadepoju@gmail.com> wrote:Exploring Abiola IreleAbiola Irele is one of the great writers in all history.His ideas resonate across cultures in time and space.Let us come together to study this great thinker and writer.
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