FYI: Electronic, DVD version just released [drastically less costly].
http://www.adventures-in-dialectics.org/Adventures-In-Dialectics/Adventures-In-Dialectics-entry.htm
Regards,
Miguel
--- In sociologyofmind@yahoogroups.com, detonacciones <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Sociology of Mind Group Participants,
>
> Marx wrote in 1868 that he wished to write a book on dialectics, stating that
> "the true laws of dialectics are to be found already in Hegel, in a mystic form,
> however. The problem is to divest them of this form." [Marx to Dietzgen, 09 May
> 1868].
>
> Marx wrote, again, in 1875, seven years later, and eight years before his death,
> in 1883, that once he had finished with the 'Economics', he intended to write on
> the subject of dialectics [Marx to Dietzgen, Dec. 1875].
>
> In the event, Marx did not live to write his 'Dialectics'.
>
> However, at long last, a collective author, "F.E.D.", may have finally filled
> the gap in Marxian theory regarding the meaning of the Marxian Dialectic that
> Marx's early demise had left open ever since.
>
> A new book has just been released by Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica
> [F.E.D.], entitled --
>
> A Dialectical "Theory of Everything" -- Meta-Genealogies of the Universe and of
> Its Sub-Universes: A Graphical Manifesto.
>
> -- see:
>
> http://www.adventures-in-dialectics.org/Adventures-In-Dialectics/Adventures-In-D\
> ialectics-entry.htm
>
> I could be wrong on this one, of course, but I think it may accomplish, for
> Platonian, Hegelian, and [especially] Marxian Dialectic, +, at long last, what
> Boole did for Aristotelian, +, formal logic with his 1847 "The Mathematical
> Analysis of Logic", and with his 1854 "Investigation of the Laws of Thought"!
>
> F.E.D. is also the group that -- using its new 'mathematics of dialectic',
> discovered, via a model of the historical dialectic of the human-social
> relations of production, the 'Citizen Stewardship Equity / Citizen Externality
> Equity' conception of the new social relationship of human-societal
> self-reproduction that could succeed the present social relation of production
> -- the [State-]Capital-/Wage-Labor-relation -- in the construction and
> constitution of a Political-Economic Democracy --
>
> http://www.equitism.org/Equitism/Theory/PoliticalEconomicDemocracy/PoliticalEcon\
> omicDemocracy.htm
>
> The book is in the form of a "coffee table" image-book, replete with diagrams,
> and other "grams", in vibrant full color, lit up like a medieval "illuminated
> manuscript".
>
>
>
> Here's the text from the front and back "flaps" of the "dust cover" jacket --
>
> "A Dialectical Theory of Everything — Meta-Genealogies of the Universe and of
> Its Sub-Universes: A Graphical Manifesto.
>
>
>
> Volume 0: Foundations (Edition 0 – December 2010), from F.E.D. Press
>
> This initial volume, Volume 0, sets forth the foundations of F.E.D.'s
> dialectical- mathematical "model of everything".
>
> Synthesizing ancient themes of dialectic, «autokinesis», and 'self-refluxivity'
> ['karmicity'], with modern themes of logical and set-theoretical paradox as
> self-reflexivity, and of integro-differentia l equation nonlinearity, evoked via
> both occidental and oriental sources from antiquity, and via modern developments
> in natural/social science, and in mathematics, this initial volume lays out
> foundations for a unified theory of dialectic. Foundations presented include a
> unification of the traditions of Platonian and Hegelian dialectic, and the
> discovery, for the first time in human history, of a rich and versatile
> 'mathematics of dialectic'.
>
> This new 'mathematics of dialectic' is utilized to derive a seventeen-symbol
> equation, which models, 'onto-qualitatively ', the dialectical self-evolutions,
> and 'self-meta-evolutions', of our «kosmos» as a totality, which also predicts a
> next major «kosmos» self-development, and which summarizes the dialectical
> "theory of everything" that gives this work its title.
>
> A dialectical, categorial progression of systems of 'qualo-quantitative ',
> dialectical arithmetics, are modeled, using the second system in that
> progression, its first explicitly dialectical system, starting from "Natural
> Numbers", or N, arithmetic, as first system. The second system is a
> 'purely-qualitative ', "non-standard model" of N arithmetic [i.e., the first
> four, "first order" Peano Postulates hold for this system], with a
> 'contra-Boolean' algebra, founded upon a hitherto-unnoticed, strong negation of
> Boole's "Fundamental Law of [formal-logical] Thought".
>
>
>
> Volume 1: Geneses (forthcoming), from F.E.D. Press
>
> Volume 1 recounts the genesis of the new dialectical mathematics in detail.
>
>
> Volume 2: Dialectical 'Meta-Models' of the 'Human Phenome' (forthcoming),
> from F.E.D. Press
>
> Volume 2 presents 'psycho-historical dialectical meta-models' , expressed via
> the
> new dialectical mathematics, which zoom-in on human-social constructions,
> including a 'meta-model' of the genesis of written language, a 'meta-model' of
> the development of ancient Mediterranean philosophy, and a 'meta-model' of the
> development of the standard arithmetics.
>
>
> Volume 3: The Dialectic of Nature (forthcoming), from F.E.D. Press
>
> Volume 3 explores 'self-meta-evolutions' of human society as processes of later natural history, including those of the human-social relations, and of the human-social forces, of human-societal self-reproduction. It also addresses the parallel development of related human thought-modes, including an historical-dialectical mathematical 'meta-model' of the 'dialectic of the dialectic itself'."
>
> Regards,
>
> Miguel
>
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