The power of negativity : selected writings on the dialectic in Hegel and Marx / by Raya Dunayevskaya ; edited by Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunayevskaya, Raya.

Contributor:

Hudis, Peter.

Anderson, Kevin, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialectic.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Physical Description:

xlii, 386 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2002]

Summary:

Raya Dunayevskaya is hailed as the founder of Marxist-Humanism in the United States. In this new collection of her essays co-editors Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson have crafted a work in which the true power and originality of Dunayevskaya's ideas are displayed. This extensive collection of writings on Hegel, Marx, and dialectics captures Dunayevskaya's central dictum that, contrary to the established views of Hegelians and Marxists, Hegel was of signal importance to the theory and practice of Marxism. The Power of Negativity sheds light not only on Marxist-Humanism and the rooting of Dunayevskaya's Marxist-Humanist theories in Hegel, but also on the life of one of America's most penetrating and provocative critical thinkers.

Contents:

Part I The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism

Chapter 1 Presentation on the Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy (June 1, 1987) 3

The Philosophic Point

Dialectics of Organization

Conclusion: Untrodden Paths in Organization

Chapter 2 Letters on Hegel's Absolutes of May 12 and 20, 1953 15

Letter on Hegel's Science of Logic (May 12, 1953)

Letter on Hegel's Philosophy of Mind (May 20, 1953)

Part II Studies in Hegelian and Marxian Dialectics, 1956-63

Chapter 3 Notes on Hegel's Phenomenology 35

Chapter 4 Rough Notes on Hegel's Science of Logic 49

Volume I Objective Logic

Volume II Subjective Logic or the Doctrine of the Notion

Chapter 5 Notes on the Smaller Logic from the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences 77

Chapter 2 Preliminary Notion

Chapter 3 First Attitude of Thought Toward the Objective World

Chapter 4 Second Attitude of Thought Toward the Objective World

Chapter 5 Third Attitude of Thought Toward the Objective World

Chapter 6 The Proximate Notion of Logic with its Subdivision

Chapter 7 First Subdivision of Logic

The Doctrine of Being

Chapter 8 Second Subdivision of Logic

The Doctrine of Essence

Chapter 9 Third Subdivision of Logic

The Doctrine of the Notion

Chapter 6 Dialogue on the Dialectic 91

Letter on Marxism and Freedom, from 1776 until Today (May 18, 1956)

Letter to Herbert Marcuse (July 15, 1958)

Letter to Herbert Marcuse (October 16, 1960)

Letter to Herbert Marcuse (January 12, 1961)

Letter to Charles Denby (March 10, 1960)

Letter to Jonathan Spence (June 1, 1961)

Letter to Erich Fromm (November 11, 1963)

Part III Theory and Practice at a Turning Point, 1964-71

Chapter 7 Letter of October 27, 1964, to Herbert Marcuse 129

Chapter 8 Hegel's Dialectic and the Freedom Struggles of the 1960s 137

Lecture in Japan on Hegel

Presentation to Black/Red Conference

Logic as Stages of Freedom, Stages of Freedom as Logic, or the Needed American Revolution

Chapter 9 Toward Philosophy and Revolution, from Hegel to Sartre and from Marx to Mao 161

Letter on Hegel's Theory of Tragedy (November 17, 1968)

Letter on Draft of Chapter 1 of Philosophy and Revolution (October 13, 1968)

The Newness of our Philosophic-Historic Contribution

Part IV After Philosophy and Revolution: Hegel's Absolutes and Marx's Humanism, 1972-81

Chapter 10 Hegel's Absolute as New Beginning 177

Chapter 11 Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Fanon, and the Dialectics of Liberation Today 191

Chapter 12 On Lukacs' Marxism 213

Letter on Lukacs (December 14, 1972)

Lukacs' Philosophic Dimension

Chapter 13 The Hegel-Marx Relation Revisited 225

Letter to Harry McShane

On the 150th Anniversary of Hegel's Death: How Valid for our Day Are Marx's Hegelian Roots?

Part V The Changed World and the Need for Philosophic New Beginnings, 1982-87

Chapter 14 Marxist-Humanism and the Battle of Ideas 237

On the Battle of Ideas: Philosophic-Theoretic Points of Departure as Political Tendencies Respond to the Objective Situation

Letter on Karl Korsch (1983)

Marxist-Humanism: The Summation That Is a New Beginning, Subjectively and Objectively (1983)

Chapter 15 Forces of Revolt as Reason, Philosophy as Force of Revolt 273

Not by Practice Alone: The Movement from Theory

Letter to the Youth on the Needed Total Uprooting of the Old and the Creation of New Human Relations

Dialectics of Revolution and of Women's Liberation

The Power of Abstraction

Chapter 16 Another Look at Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind 319

Letter on Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind (June 26, 1986)

Introduction to "Why Hegel's Phenomenology? Why Now?"

Chapter 17 Reconsidering the Dialectic: Critiquing Lenin ... and the Dialectics of Philosophy and Organization 325

Letter to Louis Dupre

Letter to George Armstrong Kelly

Talking to Myself

On Political Divides and Philosophic New Beginnings

Appendix Excerpts from 1949-51 Philosophic Correspondence with C. L. R. James and Grace Lee Boggs 343.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-365) and index.

ISBN:

0739102664

0739102672

OCLC:

46617384