They're at my uni and the whole thing seems like a honey pot. Anyone ever heard of these ppl?

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Didn't Marx have intention to dive into that topic but simply never got around to it? Or was that Engels? I'm sure one of them posited that all of nature could be analysed that way and mentioned the intention to show it but bigger priorities were afoot.

    • gammison [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Engels had a large amount of fragmentary notes on it that were posthumously published by Bernstein as the Dialectics of Nature. Engels intentions with them is still debated and they are not a choherent work given their fragmentary nature. Interestingly Einstein was consulted over their publication, and wanted them published as intellectual curiosities into Engels thought, but was firm they had no scientific value.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Cool. I knew that was locked in my brain from having seen it somewhere but at 5am I'm just not at all with it enough to dive into those deepest reaches for info.