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Tag Archives: Science of Logic
From the writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: 1953 letters on Hegel’s Absolutes
Raya Dunayevskaya’s May 12, 1953, letter—presented in two parts, here and in the next issue—is one of the historic-philosophic writings included in The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism. Continue reading
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Hegel’s Absolute Idea is for workers
Although we, as a state capitalist tendency, had been saying for years that we live in an age of absolutes, that the task of the theoreticians was the working out materialistically of Hegel’s last chapter on The Absolute Idea, we were unable to relate the daily struggles of the workers to this total conception. The maturity of the age, on the other hand, disclosed itself in the fact that, with automation, the worker began to question the very mode of labor. Thus the workers began to make concrete, and thereby extended, Marx’s profoundest conceptions, for the innermost core of the Marxian dialectic, around which everything turns, is that the transformation of society must begin with the material life of the worker, the producer. Continue reading
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The 200th anniversary of Hegel’s absolute method
From the new November-December 2012 issue of News & Letters Essay The 200th anniversary of Hegel’s absolute method by Ron Kelch All revolutions, in the sciences no less than in general history, originate only in this, that the spirit of … Continue reading
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Tagged 1844 Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of Karl Marx, absolute method, absolute negativity, Capital, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Epicurus, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel, Hegelian dialectic, Immanuel Kant, Kant, Karl Marx, Marxian dialectic, Montgomery Bus Boycott, negation of the negation, Phenomenology of Spirit, Science of Logic, Stephen Greenblatt, Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Fetish of High Tech and Karl Marx's Unknown Mathematical Manuscripts, The Swerve, Thomas Kuhn
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István Mészáros and the Dialectic
From the new March-April 2012 issue of News & Letters: Essay István Mészáros and the Dialectic by Eugene Walker István Mészáros, Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness. Volume I, The Social Determination of Method. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2010. Global depression … Continue reading
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