Front Matter......Page 1
Introduction......Page 2
PART I Hegel's Preface to the First Edition of The Science of Logic......Page 5
Understanding and Reason
......Page 7
Reason
......Page 8
Consciousness
......Page 11
Preface to the Second Edition
......Page 12
Dialectical Thought in Practical Life
......Page 15
Understanding
......Page 18
The Natural Moments of Thought
......Page 22
Consciousness and the Object: The Introduction
......Page 24
Object of the Investigation
......Page 27
Method of the Investigation
......Page 30
Preliminary Excercises
......Page 32
Essence Is a Movement of Negation
......Page 36
Identity, Difference and Contradiction, especially Contradiction......Page 40
Contradiction
......Page 42
Ground: The Proof of
the Absolute......Page 46
Review and Leninist Interlude......Page 48
Appearance and Actuality......Page 52
1 Lenin after 1914......Page 55
2 Marxism Today
......Page 56
The Doctrine of the Notion......Page 58
Leninism and the Notion......Page 66
The Development of Lenin's
Notions......Page 67
Lenin after
1917......Page 70
Leninism and Ourselves
......Page 72
The
Universals of 1948......Page 74
Trotskyism: Synthetic Cognition......Page 77
The Absolute
Idea......Page 80
The Leap......Page 84
What We Propose to
Do......Page 89
The
French Revolution in Historical Logic......Page 91
Cause and Effect......Page 104
Practice
......Page 110
Notes......Page 113