Marx and Laozi

ISBN-13: 9783031409806 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

James Chambers

Opis

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.

Spis treści

 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  

 

 

O autorze

James Chambers is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Hebei University, PRC.

Blurb

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.