ISBN:
9783031409813
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 449 p. 3 illus.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2023.
Parallel Title:
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Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
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Keywords:
Political science
;
Philosophy.
;
Idealism, German.
Abstract:
Part 1: Introduction -- 1 Reading Strategies For Hegel, Marx & Laozi -- 2. Marx and Laozi: Scientific and Aesthetic Comportments to Predicaments of Social Life -- Part 2 Hegel’s Idealism -- 3 Hegel’s Idealist Conception of Philosophy -- Part 3. Hegel’s Confrontation with Laozi: An Anti-Conceptualist Defence of Laozi Against Hegel -- 4 Hegel’s Interpretation of Laozi -- 5 An Anti-Conceptualist Defence of Laozi Against Hegel -- Part 4: Wuwei and Praxis: Aesthetic Mimetic and Scientific Discursive Employment of Concepts -- 6. Wuzhi and Wuwei: The Aesthetic Mimetic Employment of concept -- 7. Praxis: Scientific Discursive Employment of Concepts -- Part 5: Dialectics of Materialism and Wu -- 8. Social Ontology of Materialism and Idealism -- 9. Materialist Dialectics in Capital and Wu -- Part 6. Marx and Laozi: Ethics -- 10. Marx and Laozi’s Ethical Naturalism -- 11. Marx and Laozi’s Moral Skepticism -- 12. The Means/Ends Dichotomy -- Part 7. Conclusion -- 13. Conclusion. .
Abstract:
In this work the theories of Marx and Laozi are dialectically combined. The resulting synthesis is a positive materialist negation of Hegel’s idealist dialectics. Syntheses are presented for Marx and Laozi in ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, scientific method, ethics and politics: the full spectrum of their foundational principles. The book is an attempt to reconstruct a materialist interpretation of Laozi, which can be put to work for Marxist theory. James Chambers is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Hebei University, PRC.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-031-40981-3
