Hegel, Marx, and the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic

✍ Scribed by Russell Rockwell

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 251
• Series: Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides close readings of primary texts to analyze the linkage between G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy and Karl Marx’s critical social theory of necessity and freedom. This is important for three reasons: first, to understand the significance of the changing relationships of work, society, and critical social theory in the origins of Hegelian-Marxism in the US, as documented in the recently published correspondence between the Marxist-Humanist theoretician Raya Dunayevskaya and the critical theorist Herbert Marcuse; second, to identify the intersections of the Critical Theorists Jurgen Habermas’ and Marcuse’s influential reinterpretations of Marx’s “value theory” of economy and society that enables navigation of the changing relationships of the social and economic spheres in the last century, as developed in Marx’s Grundrisse; and, thirdly, to assess the potential of Moishe Postone’s renewal of Marx’s value theory, largely conceived by the notion of a necessity and freedom dialectic intrinsic to capitalism.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Necessity and Freedom in the Origins of Hegelian Marxism in the United States (Russell Rockwell)....Pages 1-23
Inside the Development of Marxist Humanism and Critical Theory: The Dunayevskaya–Marcuse Correspondence (Russell Rockwell)....Pages 25-46
Hegel in Herbert Marcuse’s Hegelian Marxism, Critical Theory, and Value Theory (Russell Rockwell)....Pages 47-72
Marx in Marcuse’s Hegelian Marxism, Critical Theory, and Value Theory (Russell Rockwell)....Pages 73-94
Changes in Critical Theory Interpretations of Marx’s Value Theory (Russell Rockwell)....Pages 95-115
Historical Configurations of the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic: The Dunayevskaya–Marcuse Correspondence, Automated Production, and the Question of Post-capitalist Society (Russell Rockwell)....Pages 117-143
Moishe Postone’s Deepened Interpretation of Marx’s Value Theory: Grundrisse (Russell Rockwell)....Pages 145-160
Moishe Postone’s Deepened Interpretation of Marx’s Value Theory: Capital (Russell Rockwell)....Pages 161-194
Conclusion: New Forms of the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic (Russell Rockwell)....Pages 195-229
Back Matter ....Pages 231-241

✦ Subjects

Political Science and International Relations; Political Theory; Political Philosophy