05792nam 2200421 450 991076025630332120231115021028.03-031-40981-7(MiAaPQ)EBC30861808(Au-PeEL)EBL30861808(EXLCZ)992870905710004120231115d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMarx and Laozi A Dialectical Synthesis /James ChambersFirst edition.Cham, Switzerland :Macmillan Palgrave,[2023]©20231 online resource (449 pages)Print version: Chambers, James Marx and Laozi Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031409806 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Note on Citations of Hegel and Marx and Engels's Primary Texts -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Introduction -- 1: Reading Strategies for Hegel, Marx, and Laozi -- Hegel -- Marx -- Laozi -- Contrary Reading Strategies of Marx and Laozi -- References -- 2: Marx and Laozi: Scientific and Aesthetic Comportments to Predicaments of Social Life -- Revitalizing Laozi, Idealism and Materialism, Universalism -- Dialectics and Synthesis -- Synthesis of Science and Aesthetics -- References -- Part II: Hegel's Idealism -- 3: Hegel's Metaphilosophy of Idealism -- Idealism and the Fear of Change -- Hegel's Definition of Idealism -- Stern's Conceptual Realism -- The Definition's Overlooked Metaphilosophical Insight -- Stern Against the Mentalistic Interpretation -- The Infinite Encompasses the Finite and the Ideal -- Dialectical Definition of the Ideal -- Metatheology of Idealism -- Metatheology of the Ideal and Protestant Orthodoxy -- Mind and World Identity -- Absolute Idealism as Metaphilosophy -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Hegel's Confrontation with Laozi -- 4: Hegel's Interpretation of Laozi -- Hegel's Idealist Criterion for Philosophy -- A Brief History of Modern Interpretations of Laozi's Dao -- Hegel's Eurocentric Bias -- Hegel's Laozi -- Hegel's Interpretation of Laozi Was Mistaken -- References -- 5: An Anti-conceptualist Reconstruction of Laozi -- Laozi's Philosophy in Chapter 1 -- Lines 1, 2, 3 &amp -- 4: Non-conceptual Dao: Quasi-Explanation of the Determinate -- Lines 5 &amp -- 6: Background/Foreground, Indeterminate/Determinate, and the Nameless/Named Opposition -- Line 8: Laozi on Desire, Boundaries, and Concepts -- Line 7: Knowing Without Desire as Absolute Mimesis -- Lines 9&amp -- 10: Unity in Opposition -- Lines 11-13: Quasi-materialist Ontology of Mystery -- Conclusion.References -- Part IV: Wuwei and Praxis: Aesthetic Mimetic and Scientific Discursive Employment of Concepts -- 6: Wuzhi and Wuwei: The Aesthetic Mimetic Employment of Concepts -- Refuting Hegel's Idealism -- Laozi's Aesthetics of the Finite: The Wuwei Epistemic Model -- References -- 7: Praxis: Scientific Discursive Employment of Concepts -- Marx and Epicurus: Mereology of Materialism -- Marx and Feuerbach -- Marx's Science of Concepts and Praxis -- Praxis and the Materialist Theory of History -- References -- Part V: Dialectics of Materialism and Wu -- 8: Social Ontology of Materialism and Idealism -- Colletti Versus Smith -- Hegel Cancelling Out the Independence of Matter -- Smith's List of Ways Hegel Did Not Cancel Out the Finite -- Hegel's Ontology of Method Versus Marx's -- The Principle of Identity and Noncontradiction in Hegel and Marx -- Reification of Universals in Hegel -- The Transition from Essence to Notion and the Idealism of Hegel's Concrete Universal -- Marx's Aufhebung of the Idealism of Hegel's Concrete Universal -- References -- 9: Materialist Dialectics in Capital and Wu -- Marx's Materialist Concrete Universal -- The Problem of Idealist/Absolute Internal Relations -- Brien's List of Theses of Internal Relations -- The Abstract Universal and the Concrete Universal -- The Empirical Derivation of the Categories -- The Conditional Nature of Tendencies -- The Concrete Universal of Capitalism and the Concrete Universal of Communism -- Wu Metaphysics and the Concrete Universal -- References -- Part VI: Marx and Laozi: Ethics -- 10: Marx and Laozi's Ethical Naturalisms -- The Ergon Argument -- Marx's Ergon Argument -- Capitalism as a Parasite -- The Neglected Tendency of Naturalism and Laozi's Anti-humanism -- The Ethics of De: Anti-humanist Naturalism -- The Aesthetic Politics of De -- References -- 11: Marx and Laozi's Moral Skepticism.The Rhetorical Tendency Against Ethics in Marx -- Justice and Ethics -- Two Tendencies of Thought on Morality in Marx and Laozi -- Ideology and Laozi's Criticism of Desire-Side Morality -- Desire-Side Morality, Fan, and Wuwei -- References -- 12: Marx and Laozi: Means and Ends -- Marx's and Laozi's Ecological Naturalism -- Laozi's Primitivism Versus Marx's Futurism -- Laozi and the Criticism of Capitalism -- Marx's Anti-utopianism and the Dichotomy of Consequentialist Politics Verses Free Labour: The Reunification of Means and Ends -- References -- Part VII: Conclusion -- 13: Conclusion -- Experiment and Memory -- The Dialectical Synthesis -- References -- Index.Philosophy, MarxistPhilosophy, Marxist.335.411Chambers 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