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Marx's views on Epicurus and 'the swerve' are discussed in detail in John Bellamy Foster's book 'Marx's Ecology'. Bruce R Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote: >Marx places a lot of store in the concept of "swerve" too, which he >ascribes to Epicurus. >http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1841/dr-theses/ch04.htm >For Marx, the swerve marked the difference between what came to be >called "mechanical materialism" and what came to be called "dialectical > >materialism" (not Marx's terms, of course). >Andy > >Larry Purss wrote: >> I thought this new book [the Swerve] on one author's assumption of >how a >> lost book could change the world may be of interest to some on this >site. >> This book won the Pulitzer prize for non-fiction. >> Here is a review of the book in the Globe & Mail newspaper >> >> >http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/the-swerve-how-the-world-became-modern-by-stephen-greenblatt/article2194842/ >> >> Larry >> __________________________________________ >> _____ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca >> >> >> > >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >*Andy Blunden* >Joint Editor MCA: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hmca20/18/1 >Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ >Book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1608461459/ > >__________________________________________ >_____ >xmca mailing list >xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca -- Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity. __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca