Dialectics


Dialectical and Historical Materialism
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
Dialectics of Nature
Negative Dialectics
Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science
Phenomenology of Spirit
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Dialectical Logic
Valences of the Dialectic
The Dialectical Biologist
Ludwig Feuerbach And the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy
On Practice and Contradiction (Revolutions)
The State and Revolution
Theodor W. Adorno
Theory must, as a dialectical one – like the Marxist one, by far and away – be immanent, even when it ultimately negates the entire sphere in which it moves.
Theodor W. Adorno, Negative Dialectics

Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov
Logic is also the theory of knowledge of Marxism, but for quite another reason, because the forms themselves of the activity of the ‘spirit’ – the categories and schemas of logic – are inferred from investigation of the history of humanity’s knowledge and practice, i.e. from the process in the course of which thinking man (or rather humanity) cognises and transforms the material world. From that standpoint logic also cannot be anything else than a theory explaining the universal schemas of the d ...more
Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov, Dialectical Logic

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