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POSITIVISM vs LIFE PHILOSOPHY
(LEBENSPHILOSOPHIE)
STUDY GUIDE
On the struggle and interdependence of positivism and life philosophy / lebensphilosophie (including existentialism and other philosophies of consciousness) within modern (bourgeois) philosophy and ideology.
“Now, in his heart, Ahab had some glimpse of this, namely: all my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.”
— Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 41See “Herman Melville's Moby Dick & the Contradictions of Modernity” by Ralph Dumain
LINKS
ON THIS SITE
Crisis Consciousness in Contemporary Philosophy by András Gedö:
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: "Two Aspects of Bourgeois Crisis Consciousness"
Chapter 2: "The Contemporary Crisis in Bourgeois Philosophy"
1. Neopositivism: Linguistic Philosophy and Critical Rationalism
2. Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie)
"The Contemporary Attack on Science" by Andras Gedo: Parts one and two
"The Historical Character of the Concept of Nature" by András Gedö
"Why Marx or Nietzsche?" by András Gedö
The Man of Science in a World of Crisis: A Plea for a Two-Pronged Attack on Positivism and Irrationalism by Aant Elzinga
"Scientism, Romanticism and Social Realist Images of Science" by Aant Elzinga
"The Growth of Science: Romantic and Technocratic Images" by Aant Elzinga
"Objectivity & Partisanship in Science" by Aant Elzinga
The Philosophical Critique of Science and the Neopositivist Critique of Philosophy in the Weimar Republic by Helmut Dubiel (See also bibliography below.)
Max Horkheimer on Materialism vs Positivism & Metaphysics
T.W. Adorno on the Division of Philosophy & Labor
T.W. Adorno on Kant, the Division of Labor & Restriction of Reason
Jeffrey Herf on Reactionary Modernism & Dialectic of Enlightenment
2003 Reading Review by Ralph Dumain
R. Dumain's Critique of Dialectic of Enlightenment
Max Horkheimer's Materialism: The Struggle with Traditional Theory, Science, Positivism, & Irrationalism by Ralph Dumain
Adorno & the Dualities by Ralph Dumain
Adorno contra Husserl by Ralph Dumain
"Heidegger's Jargon" by Ralph Dumain
On Goldmann, Lukacs, Heidegger, and Adorno by Ralph Dumain
Marxism & Totality & Gramsci & Della Volpe by Ralph Dumain
Notes on Herbert Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution by Ralph Dumain
Metacritique Critiqued by Ralph Dumain
Hegel, Marx, Goldner, C.L.R. James, Enlightenment & the Philosophical Dichotomies by Ralph Dumain
Intellectual Traditions, Alienation, and the Integration of Knowledge by Ralph Dumain
Note on the Poznan School by R. Dumain
Consciousness and Society: A Review by R. Dumain
"The Reactionary Philosophy, Ambiguous Aesthetics, and Revolutionary Politics of Herbert Marcuse" [draft] by Ralph Dumain
“Reactionary Philosophy and Ambiguous Aesthetics in the Revolutionary Politics of Herbert Marcuse—A Review Essay” by Ralph Dumain [PDF file]
"From Hegel to Marcuse" by Lucio Colletti
Man in the “Industrial Society”: Is Herbert Marcuse’s “Critical Theory of Society” Critical? by Yuri Zamoshkin & Ninel Motroshilova
"Existentialism" by Georg Lukács
Simple and Higher Categories of the Dialectic by Georg Lukács
Lukács’ Lost Manuscript Tailism and the Dialectic Reviewed by R. Dumain
Preface to Process and Unreality: A Criticism of Method in Whitehead's Philosophy by Harry K. Wells
"On the Dialectico-Materialist Type of Rationality" by Jindrich Zeleny
“Marx and Critical Scientific Thought” by Mihailo Marković
"The Concept of Critique in Social Science" by Mihailo Marković
“Anti‑Semitism and National Socialism” by Moishe Postone
The Alienation of Reason (Extract) by Leszek Kolakowski
Alternatives to Positivism by Igor Naletov (entire book)
Reflections on American Philosophy From Within: Foreword & Table of Contents by Roy Wood Sellars (links to other chapters)
Experience and Subjectivism (Sections I.F-II.D) by Marvin Farber
The Issue of Naturalism vs. Subjectivism by Marvin Farber
Naturalism and Subjectivism: Contents by Marvin Farber
Edmund Husserl and the Aims of Phenomenology by Marvin Farber
Phenomenology and Existence: Toward a Philosophy Within Nature by Marvin
Farber
Contents &
Foreword
Marvin Farber
on Maurice Merleau‑Ponty
The Search for an Alternative I: Subjectivism, Phenomenology, Marxism, and the Role of Alternatives by Marvin Farber
The Search for an Alternative 9: From the Perspective of Materialism by Marvin Farber
Phenomenology and Natural Existence: Essays in Honor of Marvin Farber,
edited by Dale Riepe
Contents &
Acknowledgements
Introduction
by Dale Riepe
The Concept of Essence (Excerpt: Phenomenology) by Herbert Marcuse
On Science and Phenomenology by Herbert Marcuse
Comment on the Paper by H. Marcuse by Aron Gurwitsch
One-Dimensional Man: From Operationalism to Zen by Herbert Marcuse
One-Dimensional Man: A New Science? by Herbert Marcuse
"Life-World within Brackets" by David H. DeGrood
"The Appearance of Reality and the Reality of Appearance" by David H. DeGrood
Carnap on Wittgenstein & Esperanto
Carnap’s ‘Elimination of Metaphysics’ by V. Brushlinsky
Modern Science and Its Philosophy
by Philipp Frank
Introduction - Historical
Background
Chapter 5: Is There
a Trend Today Toward Idealism in Physics?
Chapter 6: Mechanical
"Explanation" or Mathematical Description?
Chapter 8: Philosophic
Misinterpretations of the Quantum Theory
Chapter 10: How Idealists
and Materialists View Modern Physics
Chapter 11: Logical
Empiricism and the Philosophy of the Soviet Union
Chapter 16: The Place
of Logic and Metaphysics in the Advancement of Modern Science
Marxism and Modern Idealism by John Lewis
Marxism and the Linguistic Philosophy by Maurice Cornforth
Contents
Foreword to Second Edition
Part I, chapter 5, section 5: The
refutation of idealism
Part II, Linguistic Philosophy; chapter 7: A
Place in the Establishment
Science and Evaluation by Maurice Cornforth
Science versus Idealism by Maurice Cornforth
Contents, Foreword,
Introduction
Maurice Cornforth on William Blake vs. the Fetishism of Language
"Logical Empiricism" by Maurice Cornforth
"Wittgensteinian Foundations of Non-Fregean Logic" by Boguslaw Wolniewicz
"The Empiricist Account of Scientific Knowledge—A Polemical Evaluation" by Richard Arthur
“The Main Principles of David Hume's Epistemology as a Source of Contemporary Positivism” by Elena Panova
Revolution or Reform? A Confrontation (Herbert Marcuse & Karl Popper)
Contents
Marxism, Liberalism,
and the Foundations of Scientific Method by Frederic L. Bender
Herbert Marcuse: The New
Society
Theoretical Background:
Herbert Marcuse
Afterword to the German
Edition by Franz Stark
“Logic, Dialectics, Politics: Some Recent Controversies” by Hayward R. Alker, Jr.
The American Utopia by Eduard Batalov
Chapter II.5: The
Technocratic Utopia
Chapter III.2: The Technocratic
Utopia
"Matter and Motion" by L. Bazhenov
Wilhelm Ostwald's ‘The Bridge’ by Niles R. Holt (10/15/07)
"A Note on My Dialectic" by Jack Lindsay
"Towards a Marxist Aesthetic" by Jack Lindsay
"Popes, Kings & Cultural Studies: Placing the Commitment to Non-disciplinarity in Historical Context" by Karl Maton
On Bentham and Coleridge (Excerpts) by John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill & the Dualities: Bentham & Coleridge — Commentary by Ralph Dumain
The Popes Combat Modernity in the Bourgeois Century
"The Relationship Between Science and Morality (Philosophical Aspects)" by A. Arsenyev
Science, Society, and Life: Extract from "Private Property and Communism" from the Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of Karl Marx (1844)
Marx & Engels on the Science of History
Engels on the British Ideology: Empiricism, Agnosticism, & “Shamefaced Materialism”
Friedrich Engels on Empiricism, Spiritualism, Science, Mysticism, & Philosophical Naivete
V.I. Lenin on Idealism & The Spiral of Knowledge
The Late Vitalism of Wilhelm Reich: Commentary by Ralph Dumain
The Late Vitalism of Wilhelm Reich: Selected Quotations
C.L.R. James on Descartes & the Division of Labor
Descartes' Dualism (Extract) by Albert William Levi
Alvin Gouldner: Notes & Commentary by Ralph Dumain
The Privilege of Experience by Theodor W. Adorno
Taoism & the Tao of Bourgeois Philosophy by Ralph Dumain
Vedanta and the Bengal Renaissance by Niranjan Dahr
Chapter X: Secular English
Education and Learning
Chapter XI: Triumph of
Vedanta
Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism: Selected Bibliography
Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology: An Annotated Bibliography
Whitehead & Marxism: Selected Bibliography
Ideology Study Guide
ON OTHER SITES
1841
- The World Historic Split in Western Philosophy: The "Expurgation of Hegelianism"
by Andy Blunden
Philosophy & State Capitalism, in: State Capitalism and World Revolution, by C.L.R. James in collaboration with Raya Dunayevskaya & Grace Lee, with a new introduction by Paul Buhle (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1986; Original publication, 1950); Chapter XI, pp. 113-135.
A Fresh Look at Lukács: on Steven Vogel's Against Nature by Andrew Feenberg (Rethinking Marxism, Winter 1999, pp. 84-92)
Marcuse Or Habermas: Two Critiques of Technology by Andrew Feenberg
Nietzsche as Founder of Irrationalism in the Imperialist Period (Chapter III of The Destruction of Reason) by Georg Lukács
The Two Cultures: C.P. Snow, Literature and Science
‘The Rise of New Irrationalism and its Incompatibility with Inclusive Democracy’ by Takis Fotopoulos (Democracy & Nature, vol. 4, no. 2/3 [11/12], 1998)
Irrationalism, Fundamentalism and Religious Revival: The Colors of the Chess-Board by Fotis Terzakis (Democracy & Nature, vol. 4, no. 2/3 [11/12], 1998)
The New Dialectics: The Dialectical Phenomenology of Michael Kosok (caveat emptor)
OTHER REFERENCES
Alexander, Jeffrey C. Fin de Siècle Social Theory: Relativism, Reduction, and the Problem of Reason. London; New York: Verso, 1995.
Alford, C. Fred. Science and the Revenge of Nature: Marcuse and Habermas. Tampa: University of South Florida Press, 1985.
Balibar, Étienne. "Irrationalism and Marxism," New Left Review, I/107, January-February 1978, pp. 3-18. Introduction.
Bhaskar, Roy. The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1979.
Bronner, Stephen Eric. Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Burrow, J. W. The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914. New Haven: Yale Univeristy Press, 2000.
Christopher Mack . "Review of J. W. Burrow, The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914," H-Ideas, H-Net Reviews, June, 2001.
Burwick, Frederick; Douglass, Paul; eds. The Crisis in Modernism: Bergson and the Vitalist Controversy. Cambridge [UK]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. See table of contents and publisher description.
Dubiel, Helmut. Theory and Politics: Studies in the Development of Critical Theory, translated by Benjamin Gregg, with an introduction by Martin Jay. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985. (See also extract The Philosophical Critique of Science and the Neopositivist Critique of Philosophy in the Weimar Republic.)
Hughes, H. Stuart. Consciousness and Society: The Reorientation of European Social Thought, 1890-1930, with a new introduction by Stanley Hoffman. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2002. Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1958. See also Consciousness and Society: A Review by R. Dumain.
Lukács, Georg. The Destruction of Reason. Translated by Peter Palmer. London: The Merlin Press, 1980. See Lukács on Wittgenstein, pp. 782-784.
Marcuse, Herbert. One Dimensional Man. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964. On this site see extracts: From Operationalism to Zen, Classical Philosophy, the Division of Labor, Abstraction & Practice, A New Science? by Herbert Marcuse.
Mill, John Stuart. On Bentham and Coleridge, with an introduction. by F. R. Leavis. New York: Harper & Row, 1962. (Orig. 1950)
“Bentham” (1838), in The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume X—Essays on Ethics, Religion, and Society, ed. John M. Robson, Introduction by F.E.L. Priestley (Toronto: University of Toronto Press; London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985).
This essay can also be found at: http://www.efm.bris.ac.uk/het/bentham/bentham, http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/bentham/bentham, http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/MilBent.html.
“Coleridge” (1840), in The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume X—Essays on Ethics, Religion, and Society, ed. John M. Robson, Introduction by F.E.L. Priestley (Toronto: University of Toronto Press; London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985).
Schäfer, Wolf. "Stranded at the Crossroads of Dehumanization: John Desmond Bernal and Max Horkheimer," in On Max Horkheimer: New Perspectives, edited by Seyla Benhabib, Wolfgang Bonß, and John McCole (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993) pp. 153-183.
Fotopoulos, Takis. Towards An Inclusive Democracy: The Crisis of the Growth Economy and the Need for a New Liberatory Project. London; New York: Cassell, 1997. See chapter 8, "How Do We Justify the Project for an Inclusive Democracy?" (pp. 305-356), whose main sections are: [1] The myth of objectivity: orthodox 'objectivity'; [2] The myth of objectivity: dialectical 'objectivity'; [3] Beyond 'objectivism', irrationalism and relativism. See subsection "Dialectical Naturalism: An Objective Ethics?".
This school of thought is expounded also in the online journal Democracy & Nature (The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy) [variant title, Society and Nature], vols. 1-9 (1992-2003), succeeded by The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy (Vol. 1 - , October 2004 - ). Much of chapter 8 is recapitulated and extended in:
See also:
Vogel, Steven. Against Nature. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996.
Vogel, Steven. 'Marcuse and the "New Science"', in Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader, edited by John Abromeit and W. Mark Cobb (New York: Routledge, 2003), pp. 385-394.
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