Toward a dialectic of philosophy and organization / by Eugene Gogol.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gogol, Eugene, 1942-

Series:

Studies in Critical Social Sciences 45.

Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; v. 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and philosophy.

Dialectic.

Organizational sociology--Philosophy.

Organizational sociology.

Philosophy, Marxist.

Revolutions--Philosophy.

Revolutions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Toward a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization is an exploration of Hegel’s dialectic and its radical re-creation in Marx’s thought within the context of revolutions and revolutionary organizations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Does a dialectic in philosophy itself bring forth a dialectic in revolutionary organization? This question is explored via organizational practices in the Paris Commune, the 2nd International, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the Spanish Revolution of 1936-37 and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, as well as the theoretical-organizational concepts of such thinkers as Lassalle, Lenin, Luxemburg, Trotsky and Pannekoek. “What Philosophic-Organizational Vantage Point Is Needed for Revolutionary Transformation Today?” is examined by engaging the theoretical arguments of a number of thinkers. Among them: Adorno, Dunayevskaya, Hardt and Negri, Holloway, Lebowitz, Lukcás, Mészáros and Postone.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: Philosophy, Organization, and the Work of Raya Dunayevskaya

Prologue: The Dialectic in Philosophy Itself

Marx’s Concept of Organization: From the Silesian Weavers’ Uprising to the First Years of the International Workingmen’s Association

The Commune of Paris, 1871: Mass Spontaneity in Action and Thought Fused with the Responsibility of the Revolutionary Intellectual: The Two-War Road Between Marx and the Commune

The Second International, The German Social Democracy, and Engels after Marx—Organization without Marx’s Organization of Thought

The 1905 Russian Revolution: Mass Proletarian Self-Activity and Its Relation to the Organizational Thought of Marxist Revolutionaries

The Russian Revolution of 1917 and Beyond: Workers’ Forms of Organisation: Lenin and the Bolsheviks

Out of the Russia Revolution: Legacy and Critique— Luxemburg, Pannekoek, Trotsky

Organizational Forms from the Spanish Revolution, 1936–37

The Hungarian Workers’ Councils in the Revolution: A Movement from Practice that is a Form of Theory Prelude: East Germany, 1953

Can “Absolute Knowing” in Hegel’s Phenomenology Speak to a Dialectic of Organization and Philosophy?

Critique of the Gotha Program: Marx’s Critique of a So-Called Socialist Program; his Projection of Communism; What is its Meaning for Today?

Lenin and Hegel: The Profound Philosophic Breakthrough that Failed to Encompass Revolutionary Organization

Hegel’s Critique of the Third Attitude to Objectivity—Its Relation to Organization

Moments in the Development of Dunayevskaya’s Marxist-Humanism

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-57904-9

9786613891495

90-04-23281-8

OCLC:

809261335

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004232815 DOI