To change the world we must understand it, and the foundations of this understanding are the definitions we use. Dialectic is - for the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle - the art of persuasion.

Using Aristotle's dialectic to define Aristotle's dialectic. Dialectic, unlike logic, is concerned with particular individuals with whom we are engaged with in argument. The argument proceeds by ...

This book consists in part in a study of dialectical motifs in Marx’s work, and in part in further developing these themes in the context of a new tendency that has emerged in recent years, which is ...

CAPITALISM IS like gravity: it envelops our world so completely that it's easy to forget about it entirely. The laws of both operate inexorably, and attempts to disregard them can result in serious ...

The early 20th century novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald once quipped that “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ...

ABSTRACT: Systematic dialectic is distinguished from historical dialectic and its logic explored. As a strategy of exposition designed to articulate the forms of a given whole it orders the relevant ...