The Principle of Contradiction

The Principle of Contradiction
Author :
Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 560
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781498540148
ISBN-13 : 1498540147
Rating : 4/5 (147 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Principle of Contradiction by : Edward Conze

Download or read book The Principle of Contradiction written by Edward Conze and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conze’s monograph The Principle of Contradiction: On the Theory of Dialectical Materialism is his most important philosophical work and the foundation for his later publications as a Buddhist scholar and translator. The openly Marxist work was published under considerable risk to both printer and author alike in December 1932 in Hamburg, Germany. Only months later, in May 1933, almost all of the five hundred copies of the first edition were destroyed during the Nazi book burning campaign. It is only now, more than eighty years later, that Conze’s key philosophical work is made available to a broad audience in this English translation. In the work, Conze sets out to develop a detailed account of the historical and material conditions that support the emergence, production, and transmission of theoretical knowledge—as exemplified by the principle of contradiction—and, furthermore, to show that under different social and historical conditions the allegedly necessary truth and indubitable content of the principle would dissolve and be replaced by a radically different understanding of the principle of contradiction—a dialectic understanding of the principle that would compel a rejection of the Aristotelian dogma. From a Marxist perspective, the analysis and critique of the principle of contradiction is a crucial and necessary step towards a dialectical understanding of philosophical (and political) theory and practice. Conze’s monograph, which attempts to clear the ground for a deeper understanding of the very foundation of classical Marxist thought, may very well be the most comprehensive Marxist critique of the Aristotelian principle of contradiction available to this day. However, Conze’s pioneering 1932 monograph goes well beyond the constraints of an orthodox Marxist analysis. His erudite and scholarly account of the history and evolution of the principle of contradiction illuminates the thought of Aristotle, Marx, and Buddha, and provides the groundwork for a new cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach to philosophical theory and practice.


The Principle of Contradiction Related Books

The Principle of Contradiction
Language: en
Pages: 560
Authors: Edward Conze
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-30 - Publisher: Lexington Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Conze’s monograph The Principle of Contradiction: On the Theory of Dialectical Materialism is his most important philosophical work and the foundation for his
The Law of Non-Contradiction
Language: en
Pages: 456
Authors: Graham Priest
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-11-30 - Publisher: Clarendon Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Law of Non-Contradiction-that no contradiction can be true-has been a seemingly unassailable dogma since the work of Aristotle, in Book Gamma of the Metaphy
The Principle of Contradiction in Aristotle
Language: en
Pages: 462
Authors: Jan ?ukasiewicz
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-08 - Publisher: Topos Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For more than two thousand years, Aristotle's Principle of Non-Contradiction was almost universally accepted as the most certain and best known of all logical a
In Contradiction
Language: en
Pages: 351
Authors: Graham Priest
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-02-16 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Priest advocates and defends the view that there are true contradictions (dialetheism), a perspective that flies in the face of orthodoxy in Western philosophy
The Principle of Non-contradiction in Plato's Republic
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Laurence Bloom
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-08 - Publisher: Lexington Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Plato’s formulation of the Principle of Non-contradiction (PNC) in Republic IV is the first full statement of the principle in western philosophy. His use of