New Dialectics and Political Economy

CHRISTOPHER J. ARTHUR Former Lecturer in Philosophy JOHN R. BELL School of Liberal Studies, Seneca College, Toronto, Canada STEFANOS KOURKOULAKOS Researcher DAVID MCNALLY Professor of Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada PATRICK MURRAY Professor of Philosophy, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska BERTELL OLLMAN Professor of Politics, New York University MOISHE POSTONEAssociate Professor, University of Chicago GEERT REUTEN Associate Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam THOMAS T. SEKINE Professor of Economics, School of Commerce, Aichi-Gakuin University, Japan TONY SMITH Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Iowa State University

Many of the leading thinkers on dialectics in the Marxian tradition have collaborated here to put forward and debate challenging new perspectives on the nature and importance of dialectics.Many of the leading thinkers on dialectics in the Marxian tradition have collaborated here to put forward and debate challenging new perspectives on the nature and importance of dialectics. The issues dealt with range from the philosophical consideration of the precise nature of dialectical reasoning, to dialectics and economic theory, and to more concrete concerns such as how dialectics can help us think about globalization, freedom, inflation and subjectivity.