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SOME CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR ANTI‐ESSENTIALISM
Author(s) -
Peet Richard
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8330.1992.tb00432.x
Subject(s) - absurdity , essentialism , epistemology , sociology , environmental ethics , philosophy
A so‐called “going beyond” Marxism will be at worst only a return to pre‐Marxism; at best, only the rediscovery of a thought already contained in the philosophy which one believes he has gone beyond. As for “revisionism,” this is either a truism or an absurdity. There is no need to readapt a living philosophy to the course of the world; it adapts itself by means of thousands of new efforts, thousands of particular pursuits, for the philosophy is one with the movement of society. —J.‐P. Sartre, Search for a Method (1968: 7)