The Myth of Dialectics
Reinterpreting the Marx-Hegel Relation
Published on 4. February 1998
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Hardback
256 pages
978-0-333-69442-8 (ISBN)
Description
For a century now Marxists have been searching for a 'rational kernel' of Hegelian 'dialectics' inside the 'mystical shell' of the Hegelian system. As against this entire tradition, Rosenthal insists that Hegelian philosophy is mysticism all the way through. He argues that Marx's supposed 'dialectic method' is simply a myth and proposes the provocative thesis that it is not, after all, Hegel's 'method' of which Marx made use in Capital but rather precisely Hegel's mysticism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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index
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 143 mm
Weight
435 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-69442-8 (9780333694428)
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02/1998
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Content
Preface - Acknowledgements - Key to Abbreviations and Bibliographical Note - PART 1: MARX'S CAPITAL AND THE MYTH OF 'DIALECTICS' - 'Rigmarole' or 'Method'? - Marx on the Marx-Hegel Relation' - 'Dialectics', Historicity, and the Logic of Capital - PART 2: REIFICATION AND EXCHANGE - Concepts and Objects - Property and Person - The Objectification of Social Relations - An 'Idealism of Matter' - PART 3: 'DIALECTICAL' CONTRADICTION AND THE LOGICIZATION OF THE EMPIRICAL - Two Principles of Contradiction - The Word Made Flesh - The 'Reality' of Contradiction - PART 4: THE OBJECTIVITY OF THE ECONOMIC - A Fortuitous Theoretical Isomorphism - The 'Subject-Predicate Reversal': an Excursus on Marx's Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State - Some Passing Remarks on the 'New' Hegelian Marxism - The Universal and the Particular in the Constitution of Value - Money, or the Real Universality of Commodities - The Metaphysics of Value: On Second-Order Objectivity - Notes - Inde x