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This is my favourite treatment of Marx on swerve: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-cyril/works/alteration/ch06.htm though Bellamay Foster was a great read too! Andy Larry Purss wrote:
Bruce & Andy I googled *Marx's Ecology* and this book review [see attached] was located. Interesting how one thought leads to another. Larry On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Bruce Robinson <bruce@brucerob.eu> wrote:I sent this on Sunday but I'm not sure it ever arrived as it didn't get back to me or bounce. Apols if you did already get this. Bruce R -------- Original Message -------- From: Bruce Robinson <bruce@brucerob.eu> Sent: Sun May 27 02:36:23 GMT+01:00 2012 To: ablunden@mira.net, "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" < xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> Subject: Re: [xmca] "The Swerve" a new book reviewed on PBS today 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 ofhow alost book could change the world may be of interest to some on thissite.This book won the Pulitzer prize for non-fiction. Here is a review of the book in the Globe & Mail newspaperhttp://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. -- Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity. __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca------------------------------------------------------------------------__________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
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