Joseph Dietzgen
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Joseph Dietzgen
Born near Cologne in 1828, Joseph Dietzgen worked most of his life as a tanner. A self-educated man, he participated in the Revolution of 1848 where he first read the writings of Karl Marx and became one of his supporters. Exiled from Germany after the failed revolution, he spent time in both America and Russia, where he wrote his most famous work The Nature of Human Brain Work, published in 1869, before returning to Germany. In 1884 he moved to the United States for the third and last time after being imprisoned in Germany for his political writing. He became editor of the anarchist Chicagoer Arbeiterzeitung when its previous editors were hung by the State in response to the Haymarket bombings. When he died 2 years later he was buried beside them in Chicago.
- The Nature Of Human Brain WorkINR 195
Dietzgen Examines what we do when we think. He discovered that thinking is a process involving two opposing processes: generalization, and specialization. All thought is therefore a dialectical pro...
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Upendra Baxi
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A.A. Brill
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Mohini Anjum
Mohini Anjum is the former Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, whose career in teaching and research spanned more than 36 years at Delhi School of Economic
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Suman Oak
Suman Oak was a Professor of Education in SNDT Women's University, Mumbai. Post her move to Pune, she worked very closely with Dr Narendra Dabholkar and ANiS.
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Ashish Kothari
Ashish Kothari is with Kalpavriksh and Vikalp Sangam in India, and co-editor of Alternative Futures: India Unshackled.
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Rachel Kurian
Rachel Kurian is International Labour Economist, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.
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