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Spawn of Stalin
29th November 2009, 20:15
I don't want to start another dialectics debate but I'd really like to make some sense of negative dialectics. If anyone knows anything about it or can point me in the direction of some good websites or books on the subject I would be very appreciative.

Thanks.

Rosa Lichtenstein
29th November 2009, 23:24
You might find this some help:

http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/ndtrans.html

But, good luck with it. I have been studying this stuff for longer that most RevLefters have been alive, and I still can't make sense of it.

.redstar.
29th November 2009, 23:31
You will find quite a lot of info and references for your reading pleasure at the marxists org site
You might try looking up the Theodor Adorno archive at the site and also take a look at the Raya Dunayevskaya archive. You might also find it interesting to read Lenin's Philosophical Notebooks (look for the 'theory of reflection') and also Slavoj Zizek's Repeating Lenin. You will find all of these at marxists org sorry no links cause i don't have enough posts yet

Rosa Lichtenstein
29th November 2009, 23:36
A far more useful 'negative dialectics', in the sense of anti-dialectics, can be found here:

http://anti-dialectics.co.uk/Anti-D_For_Dummies%2001.htm