Re: [xmca] "The Swerve" a new book reviewed on PBS today

[Bruce Robinson <bruce@brucerob.eu>]

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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