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DESCRIPTION:2012 was the 200th anniversary of Hegel's absolute method. First laid out 
 in his Science of Logic, it has served as both a pole of attraction and 
 repulsion for generations of philosophers and revolutionary theorists. It 
 was also the 50th anniversary of Thomas Kuhn's ground breaking Structure of 
 Scientific Revolutions in which absolute method can be seen reflected in 
 today's philosophies of science. Marx had many critiques of Hegel and in 
 each absolute method was both transcended and preserved, beginning from his 
 1841 doctoral dissertation on Epicurus. Epicurus' philosophy has gained new 
 attention from Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve about the birth of the 
 modern world reflected in the 15th century rediscovery of Epicurus by 
 Renaissance humanists. What is even more relevant to today is the way Marx 
 re-created absolute method by drawing on Epicurus to work out the concept 
 of freely associated labor as the opposite of the fetishism of commodities 
 and capitalism's cultish myth of the isolated individual.\n\nSponsored by 
 Institute for Critical Study of Society\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/17/18730370.php
SUMMARY:Hegel's Absolute Method after 200 Years
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave. (at Alcatraz)\nOakland, Ca.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/17/18730370.php
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