Formal vs Dialectical Reason

Introduction

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Books

Must-read books - original sources, commentaries and collections

Colletti, L. (1973). Marxism and Hegel. London: NLB.

Ilyenkov, E.V. (1977). Dialectical Logic: Essays on its History and Theory. Moscow: Progress Publishers.

Kolakowski, L. (1978). Main Currents of Marxism, 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lefebvre, H. (1969). Logique Formelle, Logique Dialectique. Paris, Editions Anthropos.

Lévi-Strauss, C. (1972). The Savage Mind. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Lukács, G. (1978). The Ontology of Social Being. 2. Marx. London: Merlin.

Novack, G. (1971). Introduction to the Logic of Marxism. New York: Pathfinder Press.

Piaget, J. (1980). Les Formes Élémentaires de la Dialectique. Paris, Editions Gallimard.

Schmidt, A. (1971). The Concept of Nature in Marx. London: NLB.

Sohn-Rethel, A. (1978). Intellectual and Manual Labour. A Critique of Epistemology. London: Macmillan.

Taylor, C. (1975). Hegel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Thomson, G. (1961). The First Philosophers (second edition). London: Lawrence and Wishart.

Volpe, G. della (1980). Logic as a Positive Science. London: NLB.

Papers

Key papers & discussions

Riegel, K.F. (1973). Dialectical operations: the final period of cognitive development. Human Development, 16: 346–370.

Riegel, K.F. (1975). Towards a dialectical theory of development. Human Development, 18: 50–64.

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