Увод у социологију сазнања - Introduction to sociology of knowledge

 
 
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New-materialistic inversion of idealistic dialectical paradigm
by Vera Vratuša - Friday, 6 January 2023, 2:37 PM
 

Tabular presentation of the basic assumptions of the new-materialistic* inversion of idealistic dialectical paradigm

ontological

 

 

 

gnoseological & epistemo logical

 

 practico political

 

Social world really exists as a historically specific and contradictory combination of production forces and production relations which structurally reproduce the ideological contents of class consciousness conditioned by the class division of labor of potentially universal objective-subjective human (self)action of produced producers conducing to revolutionary situations of the transition of the quantitative changes into the qualitative transformation of the given dominant mode of the social life reproduction.

Historically specific immanent laws of the genesis, functioning and transition from one social formation into another and of the feedback influence of the legal, political and ideological superstructure on the economic infrastructure through history of class struggles, are comprehended and practiced using a dialectical method which  corresponds to the dialectical (contradictory) structure of social (and natural) reality in a continuous process of formation and transformation

The sense of cognition and critique of ideology  (критике идеологије) is rising self-awareness of the emancipatory interest of exploited and subordinated classes in order to self organize a collective practical political action of a radical structural transformation of the alienated and alienating relations of capital accumulation bourgeois society and multidimensional des alienation from the proletarian standpoint of the abolition of the class division of labor, socialized nature and naturalized humanity creation.The sense of cognition and critique of ideology of and of the critic критике идеологије) is rising self-awareness of the emancipatory interest of exploited and subordinated classes in order to self organize a collective practical political action of a radical structural transformation of the alienated and alienating relations of capital accumulation bourgeois society and multidimensional des-alienation from the proletarian standpoint of the abolition of the class division of labor, socialized nature and naturalized humanity.

 

* "The chief defect of all hitherto existing (old, note by Vera Vratusa) materialism – that of Feuerbach included – is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object or of contemplation, but not as sensuous human activity, practice, not subjectively. Hence, in contradistinction to materialism, the active side was developed abstractly by idealism – which, of course, does not know real, sensuous activity as such... The highest point reached by contemplative materialism, that is, materialism which does not comprehend sensuousness as practical activity, is contemplation of single individuals and of civil society...The standpoint of the old materialism is civil society; the standpoint of the new (materialism, note by Vera Vratusa) is human society, or social humanity....The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it (Marx, 1845/1995)."

 

REFERENCES

Marx, K. (1845/1995).Theses On Feuerbach. Marxists Internet Archive. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm ;

Marx, K. Engels, F. (1848 February/2000). Manifesto of the Communist Party. Marxists Internet Archive. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ ;

Marx, K. (1850/1993). Introduction. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. Marxists Internet Archive. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface.htm ;

Marx,K )1867/1995-6)  Afterward to the Second Second German Edition, 1873. Capital I. Marxists Internet Archive. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf

ASSIGNMENT:

Based on the proposed textbook and source literature and the ones you find, modify, supplement and / or elaborate the basic оntological, еpistemological and practical assumptions of typical advocates of the new-materialistic inversion of idealistic dialectical paradigmatic approach to examination of the problems of cognition and knowledge.

Do you have a proposition for the more simple naming of this sociology of knowledge research paradigm , provided that in the title remains announced its intertwined basic theoretical and methodological characteristic, without using the last names of the founders of historical materialistic theory and inverted Hegel’s dialectical method?
 
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