Dialectics for the New Century

CHRISTOPHER J. ARTHUR Department of Philosophy (Emeritus), University of Sussex , UKJOHN BELLAMY FOSTER Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, USAIRA GOLLOBIN lawyer and independent scholar, USANANCY HARTSTOCK Department of Political Science, University of Washington, USADAVID HARVEY Department of Anthropology, City University of New York, USAFREDERIC JAMESON The Literature Program, Duke University, USAJOEL KOVEL Division of Social Studies, Bard College, USARICHARD LEVINS School of Public Health, Harvard University, USABILL LIVANT Department of Psychology, University of Regina, CanadaMICHAEL LÖWY National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, FranceISTVAN MÉSZÁROS Department of Philosophy (Emeritus), University of Sussex, UKSAVAS MICHAEL-MATSAS University of Athens, GreeceTHOMAS T. SEKINE School of Commerce, Aichi-Gakuin University, JapanLUCIEN SÈVE independent scholar, France

• Introduction; B.Ollman & T.Smith Why Dialectics? Why Now?; B.Ollman Dialectics and Systems Theory; R.Levins John Bellamy Foster, The Dialectics of Nature and Marxist Ecology; J.B.Foster I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse; B. Livant The Dialectics of Emergence; L. Sève The Dialectics of Spacetime; D. Harvey Persistencies of the Dialectic: Three Sites; F.Jameson The Dialectics of Walking on Two Legs; B.Livant Dialectical Transformations: Teleology, History and Social Consciousness; I.Mészáros Dialectics and Revolution: Trotsky, Lenin, Lukács; M.Löwy Dialectics and Revolution, Now; S.Michael-Matsas The Dialectics of Globalization; T.Smith The Hole in Hegel's Bagel; B.Livant The Dialectic of Capital: An Unoist Interpretation; T.T.Sekine Systematic Dialectic; C.J.Arthur Marxist Feminist Dialectics for the New Century; N.Hartstock Dialectic as Praxis; J.Kovel Livant's Cure for Baldness; B.Livant Dialectics and Wisdom; I.Gollobin Index