B. Ollman & T. Smith 
Dialectics for the New Century 

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.

Table of Content

Introduction; B.Ollman & T.Smith Why Dialectics? Why Now?; B.Ollman Dialectics and Systems Theory; R.Levins John Bellamy Foster, The Dialectics of Nature and Marxist Ecology; J.B.Foster I’ll Make You an Offer You Can’t Refuse; B. Livant The Dialectics of Emergence; L. Sève The Dialectics of Spacetime; D. Harvey Persistencies of the Dialectic: Three Sites; F.Jameson The Dialectics of Walking on Two Legs; B.Livant Dialectical Transformations: Teleology, History and Social Consciousness; I.Mészáros Dialectics and Revolution: Trotsky, Lenin, Lukács; M.Löwy Dialectics and Revolution, Now; S.Michael-Matsas The Dialectics of Globalization; T.Smith The Hole in Hegel’s Bagel; B.Livant The Dialectic of Capital: An Unoist Interpretation; T.T.Sekine Systematic Dialectic; C.J.Arthur Marxist Feminist Dialectics for the New Century; N.Hartstock Dialectic as Praxis; J.Kovel Livant’s Cure for Baldness; B.Livant Dialectics and Wisdom; I.Gollobin Index

About the author

CHRISTOPHER J. ARTHUR Department of Philosophy (Emeritus), University of Sussex , UK JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, USA IRA GOLLOBIN lawyer and independent scholar, USA NANCY HARTSTOCK Department of Political Science, University of Washington, USA DAVID HARVEY Department of Anthropology, City University of New York, USA FREDERIC JAMESON The Literature Program, Duke University, USA JOEL KOVEL Division of Social Studies, Bard College, USA RICHARD LEVINS School of Public Health, Harvard University, USA BILL LIVANT Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Canada MICHAEL LÖWY National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France ISTVAN MÉSZÁROS Department of Philosophy (Emeritus), University of Sussex, UK SAVAS MICHAEL-MATSAS University of Athens, Greece THOMAS T. SEKINE School of Commerce, Aichi-Gakuin University, Japan LUCIEN SÈVE independent scholar, France