could we begin to comprehend Marx’s concept of a natural
science of man that is at the same time a human science of nature.
This will not be a crudely objectifying, materialist
science of the sort we see today, but a ‘subjective’ or
‘phenomenological’ science – a science of immediate
subjective awareness and experiencing. More precisely, it
will be a ‘field-phenomenology’ of the sort articulated by
the Marxist physicist and phenomenologist Michael Kosok
in his seminal essay entitled Dialectics of Nature. For as he
writes:
“Subjectivity, phenomenologically, simply refers to a field
of presence, i.e., an immediate non-localised gestalt,
‘opening’ or ‘awareness’ whose content is constituted by
events of mediation of determination – by ‘objects’ of
awareness ... Subjectivity, as a non-localised field of
presence is nothing but concrete immediacy, i.e., experience
as an on-going process, in which the events or event-
complexes present are any objects, products or structures
appearing out of the field ... be they symbolic systems,
physical objects or egos.”
It is precisely this phenomenology of awareness between field
and events which at the same time expresses itself as a
dialectic of inseparable distinctions, or what in modern
science is called a non-linear field of relations. In a dialectic
relation, all elements are grasped as elements of relation and
never simply as elements in relation.”