Bruce & Andy I googled *Marx's Ecology* and this book review [see attached] was located. Interesting how one thought leads to another. Larry On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Bruce Robinson <bruce@brucerob.eu> wrote: > 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 > >> __________________________________________ > >> _____ > >> xmca mailing list > >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > >> > >> > >> > > > >-- > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >*Andy Blunden* > >Joint Editor MCA: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hmca20/18/1 > >Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ > >Book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1608461459/ > > > >__________________________________________ > >_____ > >xmca mailing list > >xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > >http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > -- > Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > -- > Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca >
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