Re: Missing message?? Fwd: Re: [xmca] "The Swerve" a new book reviewed on PBS today

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

This is my favourite treatment of Marx on swerve:
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-cyril/works/alteration/ch06.htm
though Bellamay Foster was a great read too!

Andy

Larry Purss wrote:
> Bruce & Andy
>
>  I googled *Marx's Ecology* and this book review [see attached] was
> located.  Interesting how one thought leads to another.
>
> Larry
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> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Bruce Robinson <bruce@brucerob.eu> wrote:
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>   
> > I sent this on Sunday but I'm not sure it ever arrived as it didn't get
> > back to me or bounce. Apols if you did already get this.
> >
> > Bruce R
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > From: Bruce Robinson <bruce@brucerob.eu>
> > Sent: Sun May 27 02:36:23 GMT+01:00 2012
> > To: ablunden@mira.net, "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <
> > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>
> > Subject: Re: [xmca] "The Swerve" a new book reviewed on PBS today
> >
> > Marx's views on Epicurus and 'the swerve' are discussed in detail in John
> > Bellamy Foster's book 'Marx's Ecology'.
> >
> > Bruce R
> >
> > Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > Marx places a lot of store in the concept of "swerve" too, which he
> > > ascribes to Epicurus.
> > > http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1841/dr-theses/ch04.htm
> > > For Marx, the swerve marked the difference between what came to be
> > > called "mechanical materialism" and what came to be called "dialectical
> > >
> > > materialism" (not Marx's terms, of course).
> > > Andy
> > >
> > > Larry Purss wrote:
> > >       
> > > > I thought this new book [the Swerve] on one author's assumption of
> > > >         
> > > how a
> > >       
> > > > lost book could change the world may be of interest to some on this
> > > >         
> > > site.
> > >       
> > > > This book won the Pulitzer prize for non-fiction.
> > > > Here is a review of the book in the Globe & Mail newspaper
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >         
> > http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/the-swerve-how-the-world-became-modern-by-stephen-greenblatt/article2194842/
> >     
> > > > Larry
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*Andy Blunden*
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