Hegel’s Leaps and the Historicist Theory of Knowledge

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Coombs
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Theory Of Knowledge ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Science Of Logic ◽  
Irrational Numbers ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Quantitative Properties

This chapter locates the roots of the Marxist theory of revolutionary change in G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy. In the well-known formula, cumulative changes in quantitative properties give rise to a qualitative leap into the future. However, the chapter argues that the idea rests on shaky ontological foundations. Through a close reading of the Science of Logic, it is shown that Hegel’s idea of leaps relies on excising irrational numbers. To make his dialectical transitions work, Hegel has to dialecticise the mathematical infinite and ignore scientific epistemological breaks from the classical period onwards. This compares unfavourably to Alain Badiou, who makes Georg Cantor’s breakthrough with transfinite set theory the lynchpin for his discontinuous philosophy of events. The final section argues that Hegel’s notion of quantity to quality leaps is also complicit with the reformism and technological determinism promoted by key thinkers of Second International Marxism.

scholarly journals NOVEL “ORANG-ORANG PROYEK”: SEJARAH ORDE BARU

TELAGA BAHASA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramis Rauf
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
New Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

This study wants to reveal the truth procedures in Ahmad Tohari's novel Orang-Orang Proyek, as a part of an event and a factor in the presence of a new subject. This research would answer the problem: how was the subjectification of Ahmad Tohari in Orang-Orang Proyek novel as truth procedures? This study used the set theory by Alain Badiou. The set theory explained that within a set there were members of "Existing" or Being and events as "Plural" members.  The results proved that the subjectivity between Tohari and New Order events produced literary works: Orang-Orang Proyek. This happened because there was a positive relationship between the author and the event as well as on the naming of the event. Not only as of the subject but also do a fidelity to what he believed to be a truth. The truth procedures or the void—originating from the New Order event—was in the history of the making of a bridge in a village in Java island, Indonesia during the New Order period that filled with corruption, collusion, and nepotism. Tohari then embodied it in his novel. By the presences of the novel, we could know the category of Tohari's presentation as a new subject such as faithful, reactive, and obscure.

Lenin’s Philosophy: A New Dialectics of Revolution?

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Coombs
Keyword(s):  
Dialectical Materialism ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Marxist Philosophy ◽  
Science Of Logic ◽  
The Core

This chapter argues against the Hegelian-Marxist narrative, in which Lenin’s reading of the Science of Logic in 1914 led him to refound Marxist dialectics. Through a close reading of Lenin’s Philosophical Notebooks it is shown that although he made withering remarks about Engels’s and Plekhanov’s dialectics, this did not lead Lenin to reject the core principles of dialectical materialism. Indeed, it is demonstrated that Lenin neither intended to nor accomplished a refoundation of Marxist dialectics in 1914. The notion of quantity-quality leaps Lenin adds to his works from the time onwards show him less as an innovator in Marxist philosophy and more as a keeper of the flame of dialectical materialist orthodoxy.

The Unprecedented Return of St. Paul

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregg Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Alain Badiou

This statement takes up the frequency of contemporary philosophers who have returned to the epistles of St. Paul as the basis for a philosophy of truth and history. The chapter provides a close reading of an example in the recent writings of French philosopher Alain Badiou

scholarly journals Thinking Through the History of the Book

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Howsam
Keyword(s):  
Book History ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Conceptual Category ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
Material Form ◽  
Organic Change

An impressive body of meticulous scholarship in the history of the book has led scholars to reject outmoded models of revolutionary change and technological determinism, and instead to explore themes of evolution and organic change. Similarly, the old unitary and Eurocentric book history is being supplanted by a series of parallel narratives where the focus is on human adaptation of new technologies to newly felt needs and fresh marketing opportunities. The article suggests that the study of book history is a way of thinking about how people have given material form to knowledge and stories. It highlights some particularly ambitious recent arguments, and emphasizes research, theory and pedagogy as the means to a wider understanding. Rather than being an academic discipline, book history is identified as an “interdiscipline,” an intellectual space where scholars practicing different disciplinary approaches and methodologies address the same capacious conceptual category.

Marx's Concept of Truth: A Kantian Interpretation

1977 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-326
Author(s):  
David B. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
William James ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Theory Of Knowledge ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Classical Formulation ◽  
Classical Definition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Concept Of Truth ◽  
Definition Of

It would be misleading to make any reference to Marx's “theory” of truth-for nowhere in the corpus of Marx's writings will one find an essay dealing with truth in a thematic way. Marx's scattered remarks on truth occur within the context of discussions of social questions. What one can pull together on the topic of truth amounts at most to the sketch of a concept which applies to social knowledge and not knowledge in general. My aim will be to reconstruct Marx's concept of social truth on the basis of his writings on society and social theory.Those who want a systematic essay developing a general Marxist theory of knowledge have, of course, Lenin's classical formulation of Marxist epistemology in Materialism and Empiriocriticism. We also have Leszek Kolakowski's bold and heretical attack on Lenin's interpretation in “Marx and the Classical Definition of Truth” where we find the astounding claim that Marx's view of truth is closer to that of William James than to that of Lenin.Kolakowski's essay has been the subject of numerous attacks both by predictably indignant true believers and by independent, creative Marxists.

scholarly journals Co-instituting the Constituency

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calvin Duggan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Set Theory ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Constituent Power ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Eu

Traversing cultural studies and political theory, this paper asks how any representative is to represent a diverse constituency, given that any constituency is necessarily co-instituted—that is, made up of—multiple and conflicting bodies and interests. Arguing that the term has suffered from a deficit of enquiry within the theoretical and critical humanities, this article thus aims to re-figure the concept of constituency. The specific understanding of constituency formation within the context of British political system, something especially visible in the wake of the EU referendum and its aftermath, highlights that constituencies are understood within this context through an atomic logic—that is, that each constituency is made up of individual constituents. Thinking with the notion of constituent power allows for a better understanding of the co-instituted nature of constituencies: how and by whom they are co-created. This, in turn, undermines any understanding of political representation as a merely bi-directional practice between representative and constituency. Finally, a close reading of Ghislaine Leung’s CONSTITUTION helps probe further both a bi-directional account of constituency formation and the notion that constituencies are themselves atomically structured, upsetting set theory in the process and allowing us to better apprehend the co-constitutive relationship between constituency and constituent.  

scholarly journals LAS SITUACIONES PRÁCTICAS EN EL PROCESO DE ENSEÑANZA APRENDIZAJE DE LAS MATEMÁTICAS

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agustín Márquez Oquendo ◽  
Luis Enrique Maridueña Macancela
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Theory Of Knowledge ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Theory Of Didactic Situations ◽  
Learning Development ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Sobre Todo

Las situaciones prácticas constituyen una necesidad de la didáctica actual en la enseñanza preuniversitaria, sobre todo, porque mediante las cuales se puede dirigir el proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje, de manera que resulte un aprendizaje duradero, significativo y de interés para los alumnos. Está sustentada en la teoría de las situaciones didácticas de Guy Brousseau y sus seguidores, el aprendizaje desarrollador de los seguidores cubanos de Majmutov y Vigotsky, la teoría marxista del conocimiento, y otras, lo cual unido a su definición se encuentran reseñados en este artículo. Palabras Clave: situaciones prácticas, tratamiento de situaciones prácticas, situaciones didácticas, enseñanza aprendizaje desarrolladores ABSTRACT Practical situations constitute a necessity on current didactics mainly at pre-university teaching, especially because through them, the teaching learning process can be directed, so that it becomes a durable, significant learning of interest for the students. This study is based on the theory of didactic situations of Guy Brousseau’s and followers, the learning development theory of Majmutov and Vigotsky’s Cuban followers, the Marxist theory of knowledge, and others, which together with their definition are pointed out in this article. Keywords: practical situations, treatment of practical situations, didactic situations, teaching-learning development. Recibido: febrero de 2016Aprobado: abril de 2016

scholarly journals Beyond Recognition: Badiou’s Mathematics of Bodily Incorporation

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Madarasz
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Category Theory ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
General Logic ◽  
Phenomenological Methodology ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The One

In Being and Event, Alain Badiou disconnects the infinite from the One and the Absolute, thus recasting the basis from which to craft a new theory of generic subject, the existence of which is demonstrated through set theory. In Logics of Worlds, Badiou turns his attention to the modes by which this subject appears in a world. It does so by being incorporated as a subjectivizable body, a body of truth. As opposed to Being and Event, the demonstration of this argument takes shape according to two distinct levels, that of a “calculated phenomenology” and that of a formalism in which category theory provides a general logic, the combination of which delineates an “onto-logic”. In this essay, we trace Badiou’s derivation of the notion of body of truth and evaluate the innovative phenomenological methodology applied to explain its association with a world.

scholarly journals Mao’s Marxist Negation of Marxism

Asian Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-96
Author(s):  
Ozan Altan ALTINOK
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
General Structure ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Theory Of Knowledge ◽  
Theory Construction ◽  
Subjective Element ◽  
Epistemological Understanding ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper, my main aim is to analyse Mao’s conception of Marxist theory and his Marxist subjectivity in theory construction in his three articles. While doing so, I will use two main approaches, first is the idea that Karl Marx’s method in understanding social relations and his theory of knowledge is in many aspects compatible and in continuation with an epistemological reading of Hegel’s subjectivity, and the second is the general structure about the relationship between the object and subject’s process of knowing is similar in all three thinkers. While doing so, I will advocate the position that Mao’s epistemology is compatible with the Marxist understanding of Hegelian epistemology, and that from such an epistemological understanding it is possible to investigate Mao’s three texts in a way that yields, not an orthodox or “end result” Marxism, but instead a more general, meta epistemological understanding of Marx, that is understood better structurally. Eventually, I will claim that while using “scientific” or “orthodox” Marxism as a method to understand society, Mao further uses the subjective element in the same way as Hegel and Marx used it, although eventually he diverts the Marxist subjective manoeuvre to another direction.

scholarly journals A New Hope for the Symbolic, for the Subject

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norma M. Hussey
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Mathematical Ontology ◽  
The Subject

This paper is perhaps an impressionistic response to accounts of the extraordinary set-theoretical activity being undertaken by W. Hugh Woodin (mathematician) and colleagues in the present moment, in the context of the mathematical ontology proposed and elaborated by Alain Badiou (philosopher). The argument presented is that the prevailing and sustained incoherence of the mathematical ontology (i.e. set theory) underscores a contemporary deficit of humanity’s symbolic organization which, in turn, yields confusion and conflict in terms of subjective orientation. But a new axiom (conjectured as yet) promises to realize a coherent set theory, i.e. stable, consistent and complete. This remarkable (and completely unexpected) development offers hope for the pursuit of a modern (i.e. non-hierarchical) symbolic, and a consequent resolution of the general subjective disorientation.

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