Dialectic

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Andrew Sola

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.1.1: Greek Writing and Culture: Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Imperial, -800--100.
Vol. editors: Jonathan Burgess (University of Toronto), Giacomo Fedeli (University of Exeter), Emily Kneebone (University of Nottingham), Vaios Liapis (Open University of Cyprus), Elodie Paillard (University of Sydney), Mali Skotheim (Ashoka University), Laura Swift (The Open University)

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Concept/ Method (philosophical)

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Date of occurrence -500

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Ancient Greece (Location)

Presocratics
Plato
Kant
Hegel
Marx

As with many specialist words used by philosophers (such as “ideology” and “alienation”), “dialectic” has accumulated different meanings throughout time. Indeed, the linguistic history of “dialectic” curiously intersects with one of its meanings: historical change. Because the history of “dialectic” is complicated, we will limit the bulk of our discussion to three areas: 1) the origins of dialectical thinking in Ancient Greece; 2) “dialectic” as it was understood by the German Idealist philosophers Kant and Hegel; and 3) “…

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Citation: Sola, Andrew. "Dialectic". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 December 2003 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=271, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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