Category Archives: Dialectics

The Dialogical Self: Converging East-West Constructions

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Giorgio Bertini

Prompted by the work of Hermans, we attempt to construct the dialogical self informed by Eastern traditions. To describe dialogical phenomenology we turn to three esources: (a) ~”\ Chinese intellectual traditions, (b) dreams and (c) daily life. J Dialogical attributes … Continue reading →

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Ontology and Dialectics – Theodor W. Adorno

Posted on February 24, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

Adorno’s lectures on ontology and dialectics from 1960–61 comprise his most sustained and systematic analysis of Heidegger’s philosophy. They also represent a continuation of a project that he shared with Walter Benjamin – ‘to demolish Heidegger’. Following the publication of … Continue reading →

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Sociological Dilemmas: Toward a Dialectic Paradigm

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Giorgio Bertini

Book – Sociological Dilemmas: Toward a Dialectic Paradigm aims to build a new paradigm in sociological theory by using the method of dialectical critique, patterned on the approach utilized by Karl Marx. The book explores the sociological heritage, with the theoretical … Continue reading →

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Both Dialogic and Dialectic

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

Wertsch’s sociocultural anthropology, grounded in a theory of mind which owes much to the ideas of Vygotsky and Bakhtin, has enabled a rich understanding of classroom learning in terms of ‘growing semiotic control’ and ‘mastery of the mediational means’. This … Continue reading →

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Critical Thinking as Dialectics: a Hegelian-Marxist Approach

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

Admitting that the peculiarity of education doesn‟t merely lie in the acquisition of knowledge, as a compilation of data, but that it refers to the fostering, within the pedagogical relationship, of universal human capabilities, the ability to think to be … Continue reading →

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Structuration Theory and Self-Organization

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

Social systems theory is dominated by a reductionistic individualism and a dualistic functionalism. Especially the latter doesn’t adequately integrate the human being. In order to avoid dualism, mechanistic determinism and reductionism, a dialectical concept of social systems that is based … Continue reading →

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The Self-Organisation of Politics, Power and the Nation State

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

Society is self-organising or re-creative in the sense that new emergent structures result from interactions of actors, these structures enable and constrain actions and stimulate further practices. Political self-organisation is a reflexive process where political agents co-ordinate their actions in … Continue reading →

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Modern Society – A Complex, Evolutionary, Self-Organising, Antagonistic System

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

The aim of this paper is to outline some foundational aspects of a theory of self-organising social change. Synchronous social self-organisation is based on a contradiction between structures and actors that produces emergent results. The cycle of expanded reproduction of … Continue reading →

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Globalization and Self-Organization in the Knowledge-Based Society

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

In this paper I suggest that a theory of self-organization can be used as a consistent background theory for explaining the dynamics and logics of globalization. Globalization is not confined to the human realm, it is an attribute of all … Continue reading →

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The Self-Organisation of Society

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

The aim of this paper is to outline some aspects of the self-organisation of society based on a dialectical methodology. On a very general level, society can be characterised as a re-creative system: By mutual productive relationships of social structures … Continue reading →