The Myth of Dialectics
Reinterpreting the Marx-Hegel Relation
Published on 4. February 1998
XV, 238 pages
978-0-230-37184-2 (ISBN)
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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 propagated by academics 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. The role of money in Marx and Hegel is examined in detail.
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JOHN ROSENTHAL
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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 Index
