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CIAO DATE: 03/02
Critical Review
Are We All Dialecticians Now? Reply to MacGregor and Friedman
By Chris Matthew Sciabarra
Abstract
In his critique of Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, David MacGregor argues that my book trivializes dialectical method. He fails to notice the many nondialectical assumptions that pervade contemporary social theory and practice. Dialectics, as a context-sensitive methodological orientation, can provide tools for a better grasp of systems and processes in the real world--the goal, as I understand it, of the "post-libertarian" approach Jeffrey Friedman advocates.