Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 18:23:18 +0300 (EET DST)
Subject: Re: HEGEL, ALTHUSSER, PHILOSOPHY & SCIENCE


Manjur,

yes, of course it was a joke... (seems I have poor sense of humor)

> ... And the reincarnation comment- that's a joke, right?

... but I was unable to track method of reading in your post.

I'm not sure what happened to good old theory-driven empirical
analysis-and-interpretation-explanation method (in questions of
historical reality) or conceptual analysis-and-interpretation method
(in questions of theoretical and philosophical issues) but I'm sure
that reading history like just another text easily has an effect that
we lose certain essential dimensions of historical reality. This is
not a criticism of your original post - I happen to have same
conception that there is long and powerful, more or less structuralist
tendency in French social thought, all the way from N. Malebranche
(17th century *occasionalist* philosopher) to recent trends. I can
admit that without buying structuralism as such (though I'm doing it
method-wise to a degree).

Jukka L

> I didn't mean symbolism in the sense of any intrinsic cause anmd
> effect relationship in history.  I hope I deserve at least that much
> respect. I was refering to a method of reading, - sort of a quasi-personal
> periodization of intellectual history, the structuralist heritage of
> Althusser.



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