Dialectics for the New Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Bertell Ollman, Tony Smith

   Pages 1-7

3. Why Dialectics? Why Now?

   • Bertell Ollman

   Pages 8-25

4. Dialectics and Systems Theory

   • Richard Levins

   Pages 26-49

5. The Dialectics of Nature and Marxist Ecology

   • John Bellamy Foster

   Pages 50-82

6. I’ll Make You an Offer You Can’t Refuse

   • Bill Livant

   Pages 83-84

7. Dialectics of Emergence

   • Lucien Sève

   Pages 85-97

8. The Dialectics of Spacetime

   • David Harvey

   Pages 98-117

9. Persistencies of the Dialectic: Three Sites

   • Fredric Jameson

   Pages 118-131

10. The Dialectics of Walking on Two Legs

    • Bill Livant

    Pages 132-134

11. Dialectical Transformations: Teleology, History and Social Consciousness

    • István Mészáros

    Pages 135-150

12. Dialectics and Revolution: Trotsky, Lenin, Lukács

    • Michael Löwy

    Pages 151-162

13. Dialectics and Revolution, Now

    • Savas Michael-Matsas

    Pages 163-178

14. Towards a Systematic Dialectic of Globalization

    • Tony Smith

    Pages 179-198

15. The Hole in Hegel’s Bagel

    • Bill Livant

    Pages 199-199

16. The Dialectic of Capital: An Unoist Interpretation

    • Thomas T. Sekine

    Pages 200-210

17. Systematic Dialectic

    • Christopher J. Arthur

    Pages 211-221

18. Marxist Feminist Dialectics for the Twenty-first Century

    • Nancy Hartsock

    Pages 222-234

19. Dialectic as Praxis

    • Joel Kovel

    Pages 235-242

20. Livant’s Cure for Baldness

    • Bill Livant

    Pages 243-245

This anthology contains some of the more important Marxist thinkers now working on dialectics. As a whole the book is an unusual 'Introduction to Dialectics', a systematic restatement of what it is and how to use it, a survey of most of the main debates in the field, and a good picture of the current state of the art of dialectics.

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• globalization
• Lenin
• revolution
• systems theory
• transformation

• Department of Politics, New York University, USA

  Bertell Ollman

• Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Iowa State University, USA

  Tony Smith

CHRISTOPHER J. ARTHUR Department of Philosophy (Emeritus), University of Sussex , UK JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, USA IRA GOLLOBIN lawyer and independent scholar, USA NANCY HARTSTOCK Department of Political Science, University of Washington, USA DAVID HARVEY Department of Anthropology, City University of New York, USA FREDERIC JAMESON The Literature Program, Duke University, USA JOEL KOVEL Division of Social Studies, Bard College, USA RICHARD LEVINS School of Public Health, Harvard University, USA BILL LIVANT Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Canada MICHAEL LÖWY National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France ISTVAN MÉSZÁROS Department of Philosophy (Emeritus), University of Sussex, UK SAVAS MICHAEL-MATSAS University of Athens, Greece THOMAS T. SEKINE School of Commerce, Aichi-Gakuin University, Japan LUCIEN SÈVE independent scholar, France

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