The Fundamental Philosophy

Abstract

As we found in Chapter 6, recent Western non-Marxist philosophy has propelled itself into such an unhappy state as to warrant Popper’s grave indictment: ‘Apart from some Marxists, most professional philosophers seem to have lost touch with reality.’ And we noted Lukács’ challenging assertion that a resuscitation of Western non-Marxist philosophy would be impossible ‘on the soil of bourgeois society’. Far from responding to that challenge, non-Marxist philosophy has been failing to pull its weight or even to make any organized effort to regenerate itself. It has become ingrown and disconnected from the wellsprings of new ideas.