Christopher John Arthur (since 1990 aka. Chris Arthur, Christopher Arthur or C. J. Arthur) (born February 7, 1940) is a philosopher and author of Marxist Dialektic.
Christopher J. Arthur studied at the University of Nottingham and University of Oxford. He taught philosophy at the University of Sussex for 25 years. He is a member of the International Symposium on Marxian Theory, which has been organizing annual symposia since 1991 and has already published 10 anthologies.
Arthur is a proven expert on the works of Karl Marx. He advocates the so-called âÂÂHomology Thesis,â according to which the dialectical methods of Marx and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel are similar in form but exist on different ontological levels. The real movement of exchange, as described by Marx in Das Kapital, thus models the self-moving thought forms from Hegel's idealistic theory.
Arthur can be considered the main representative of the so-called New Dialectics, which can also be regarded as a school of its own. This is characterized by its distinction from analytical Marxism, which rejects dialectics, and Hegelian-Marxist approaches, which focus on Hegel's philosophy of history.