Process and Relations in Dialectics

Every thesis develops out of specific conditions and social relations, as Giddens (1984, p. 23) points out, reflecting the reality of a particular time and place. As Bourdieu (1977, p. 56) highlights, every thesis has a history of its development and it is heading somewhere. If its static nature is not coordinated with the requirements put forward by changing conditions of time and place, as Habermas (1981, p. 78) argues, then its inner contradictions are leading it somewhere. As Ollman (1976, p.45) emphasizes, each thesis is, therefore, both static and a process at the same time. Static in the sense that it developed as an answer to the conditions and relations of a particular time and place, which are constantly evolving, as Foucault (1980, p. 45) explains. Process in the sense that it has a history of development and it is heading somewhere due to its static nature, as Bauman (1989, p. 67) states. To fully understand the truth of a thesis, it must be considered as a process. As Gi…