Lebensphilosophie (was: Summary of Jargon...): POSTSCRIPT
Ralph Dumain
rdumain at igc.org
Sat, 10 May 2003 11:07:38 -0400
I wonder how Marcuse differs from Horkheimer and Adorno in these
matters. I recall some quotations wherein Marcuse makes some bizarre
statements about logic and science that go way beyond H & A. Also, Marcuse
positiviely engaged Heidegger. I have his early book on Heidegger but
couldn't bring myself to read it. Maybe someone could fill in the gaps here.
At 10:24 AM 5/10/2003 -0400, Ralph Dumain wrote:
>(2) Strangeness of F.S. materialism: it seems that Horkheimer and Adorno
>and several others went down the "Continental" philosophy road: i.e. they
>absorbed the heritage of German idealism and then rebelled against it by
>way of Marxism and materialism. But ontologically, it's not the sort of
>materialism positively constructed, as say dialectical materialism,
>Sellars' critical realism, or other variants of ontological
>materialism. Positive materialism is also very much engaged with the
>sciences or the philosophical issues arising therefrom. You will notice H
>& A dancing around these issues: they try to be pro-science but are
>uncomfortable venturing into this area; rather, they focus on a critique
>of positivism. I've been suggesting all along that this is a very
>important nuance that we must be very conscious of now, especially with a
>view to overcoming the artificial academic divisions of knowledge, which
>also express themselves in the bogus categories of "western" and
>"orthodox" Marxism.