dialectical materialism

English

Etymology

Calque of German dialektischer Materialismus, coined by Joseph Dietzgen in Streifzüge eines Sozialisten in das Gebiet der Erkenntnißtheorie [1887].[1]

Noun

dialectical materialism (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) The concept of reality in which material things are in the constant process of change brought about by the tension between conflicting or interacting forces, elements, or ideas.
    Synonym: (shortening) diamat
    • 1887, Joseph Dietzgen, Streifzüge eines Sozialisten in das Gebiet der Erkenntnistheorie, page 21; English translation from Max Beer & Theodor Rothstein, transl., edited by Eugene Dietzgen & Joseph Dietzgen Jr., Excursions of a Socialist into the Domain of Epistemology (Some of the Philosophical Essays by Joseph Dietzgen)‎[1], 1906, page 293:
      Because the idealist perversity in its last representatives, namely Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, was thoroughly German, its issue, dialectical materialism, is also a pre-eminently German product.
      [original: Weil die idealistische Verkehrtheit in ihren letzten berühmten Ausläufern, namentlich durch Kant, Fichte, Schelling und Hegel grunddeutsch war, so ist auch das Erzeugnis derselben, der dialektische Materialismus, ein vornehmlich deutsches Produkt.]

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References

  1. ^ Beamish, Rob (2007) “dialectical materialism”, in Ritzer, George, editor, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, pages 1050 - 1051
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