tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8209393507862037119.post4182352348835125393..comments2023-11-02T05:54:26.499-07:00Comments on Down with verdinglichung: Long live objektivierung: EPM "One science" and Richard Gunnrobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072068688801805833noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8209393507862037119.post-10844559553370062112007-06-17T04:54:00.000-07:002007-06-17T04:54:00.000-07:00¨But natural science has invaded and transformed h...¨But natural science has invaded and transformed human life all the more practically through the medium of industry; and has prepared human emancipation, although its immediate effect had to be the furthering of the dehumanisation of man.¨ <BR/><BR/>This does raise the question though of how to achieve epistemological truth from a dehumanised position? Lukacs seems concerned with this, but seeks that truth outside of man´s second "dehumanised" nature, and assumes the position of his first nature.<BR/><BR/>Re: p. 105 ¨things¨and ¨things-in-themselves" at the end of the second paragraph: The return of these neglected things, is it seems a return of some neglected(first nature) epistemological truth. "In moments of crisis . . ." I was reminded of Pavlov´s dogs. If I am reading this correctly it is indeed a distinct sense of aquiring truth than that which Marx is concerned with here, which is instead the aquisition of what man is, through the process of the estrangement of this nature in industry. This is not a return of an original content, but the substantiation of man (as form) on a "higher" level, with novel content (industry).<BR/><BR/>But I´ve yet to read Gunn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com