tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post6703034774315245985..comments2024-03-28T06:07:03.667-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: PASS THE POPCORNRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-22983853696013875262013-09-28T18:26:22.717-04:002013-09-28T18:26:22.717-04:00Prof.
While everybody else is busy enjoying the T...Prof.<br /><br />While everybody else is busy enjoying the TV and popcorn (our equivalent to bread and circus), I'll venture some off-topic questions. :-)<br /><br />Upon reading your "One-Dimensional Man" tutorial, which is very instructive and excellent, I came up with a few questions.<br /><br />I got the general impression, from the tutorial, that the process of combining the insights of Freud and Marx by Western Marxists in a way is an attempt to provide micro-foundations to Marxist thought.<br /><br />The Marginal Revolution (from Menger, Jevons and Walras), for instance, was supposed to trace economic behaviour back to individual's "rational" decision-making.<br /><br />Similarly, Freud would, within Marxist thought, provide the "micro" theory: "Freud took the larger social and economic world of himself and his patients as a given fact, to which, as a medical doctor, he gave very little thought. His realm of investigation was the individual unconscious, with heavy emphasis on the development of the unconscious in early childhood".<br /><br />My question is: must social science be ultimately grounded on individual human behaviour? What about "structures"? I suppose I am trying to query about your views on the ontology of social sciences and Marxism implied by Freud.<br /><br />More generally, as a Marxist philosopher active and participating in theoretical debates during the 20th century, how do you evaluate developments such as the New Left?<br />Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07528637318288802178noreply@blogger.com