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A symposium paper on Moishe Postone's Time, Labor and Social Domination that focuses on two of the book's core assertions. First is Postone's claim that capital is the self-constituted "Subject" of our era, with "Subject" & its impetus understood in the Hegelian sense, a point that is thoroughly persuasive. Second is Postone's insistence that the necessary critique not be based in the social perspective of the proletariat, which is only half as convincing. Thus, while all of his claims about the necessity of "labor" as a category for the existing social whole are valid, none of them rule out the proletariat from shaping itself counter to capital, & from active resistance to wage slavery. 15 References. K. Coddon

"This book brings together over 25 years of Arindam Chakrabarti's original research in East-West 'fusion' philosophy on issues of epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. Organized under the three basic concepts of a thing out there in the world, the self who perceives it, and other subjects or selves, his work revolves around a set of realism links. Examining connections between metaphysical stances toward the world, selves, and universals, Chakrabarti engages with classical Indian and modern Western philosophical approaches to a number of live topics including the refutation of idealism; the question of the definability of truth, and the possibility of truths existing unknown to anyone; the existence of non-conceptual perception; and our knowledge of other minds. He additionally makes forays into fundamental questions regarding death, darkness, absence, and nothingness. Together with conceptual clarification and progress towards alternative solutions to these substantial philosophical problems, Chakrabarti demonstrates the advantage of doing philosophy in a cosmopolitan fashion. Beginning with an analysis of the concept of a thing, and ending with an analysis of the concept of nothing, Realisms Interlinked offers a preview of a future metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind without borders"--