Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 10:51:37 -0700 (PDT)
To: bhaskar-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Re: BHA: Bhaskar on Adorno 


At 11:06 AM 8/28/97 -0400, MSalter1-AT-aol.com wrote:
>I accept the point re ontological realism, but one of the points that I, and
>perhaps Ruth to, were driving towards was that the realism/irrealism,
>materialism/idealism were binary oppositions or antinomies, that it is one of
>the main (cognitive) aims of dialectical analysis to overcome. 

I think this is utter nonsense.  Too much exposure to German idealism, methinks.

>Adorno's discussion of subject/object dialectics provides useful point of
> comparison,

Are you comparing idealism/materialism to subject/object?  I thought Lukacs
went this route and beyond it.



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