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Thinking about Human Need
“The discourse of objective and universal human need has been abused to reinforce a wide variety of relationships of dominance. The word ‘need’ is one of the first to which self-proclaimed ‘authorities’ have traditionally turned to justify their power and the morality of inflicting it on others. If . . .” read more
The Practical Foundations of Human Understanding
“This essay concerns the significance of ‘human sensuous activity’—what has become known variously as ‘praxis’ to many Marxists and ‘action’ to analytic and phenomenological philosophers. Put grandly, our thesis is that it is from labour, and not from language or thought, that the category of meaning arises. That . . .” read more