MIA: Encyclopedia of Marxism: Glossary of Terms


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Ontology

In ancient times, Ontology referred to study of Being and fell into disrepute in modern times, but Edmund Husserl revived the idea of the study of different forms of Being and Phenomenology and Existentialism have given rise to a new concern with Ontology, the central problem of which is the age-old problem of Mind and Body. (See Rene Descartes.)