Lukács' dialectic
reflection of chaos in internality
pp. 200-215
in: , Georg Lukács' Marxism alienation, dialectics, revolution, Berlin, Springer, 1964Abstract
The term "dialectic" stems from the Greek dialegein. Legein means to "talk", "to collect", "to explain". Dia means "through", "division", "apart", 'separate". Translated liberally, dialegein could then mean "divisive talk", "to collect what is separate", which brings out the destructive-constructive elements of the dialectic.