Marx's Capital And Hegel's Logic: A Reexamination: Historical Materialism, Volume 64
By (Author) Fred Moseley
Edited by Tony Smith
Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books
12th May 2015
United States
General
Non Fiction
Philosophy: logic
Economic theory and philosophy
335.412
Paperback
336
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
472g
This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth reappraisal of the relation between Marx's economic theory in Capital and Hegel's Logic by leading Marxian economists and philosophers from around the world. The subjects dealt with include: systematic dialectics, the New Dialectics, materialism vs. idealism, Marx's 'inversion' of Hegel, Hegel's Concept logic, Hegel's Essence logic, Marx's levels of abstraction of capital in general and competition, and capital as Hegelian Subject.
The older debates about Marxs Hegelianism were generally conducted under the sign of idealism and its denunciation; today probably it is vitalism that is the more significant issue. But in the newer Marxian investigations, Hegels Logic is grasped as a theoretical anticipation of the complex and dialectical forms taken by capital itself. This is the sense in which, retroactively, Hegel is reread through Marx and not the other way round. As one of these contributors puts it, Hegel becomes an appropriate reference because it is capital itself which is idealistic. At any rate, this stimulating volume offers a rich sampling of the newer approach and the insights it provides to Marx himself. Prof. Fredric Jameson, Duke University
The older debates about Marxs Hegelianism were generally conducted under the sign of idealism and its denunciation; today probably it is vitalism that is the more significant issue. But in the newer Marxian investigations, Hegels Logic is grasped as a theoretical anticipation of the complex and dialectical forms taken by capital itself. This is the sense in which, retroactively, Hegel is reread through Marx and not the other way round. As one of these contributors puts it, Hegel becomes an appropriate reference because it is capital itself which is idealistic. At any rate, this stimulating volume offers a rich sampling of the newer approach and the insights it provides to Marx himself. Prof. Fredric Jameson, Duke University
Fred Moseley is Professor of Economics at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of The Falling Rate of Profit in the Postwar United States Economy and editor of Marxs Logical Method: A Reappraisal, New Investigations of Marxs Method, Heterodox Economic Theories: True or False, and Marxs Theory of Money: Modern Reappraisals. He has also published numerous articles on Marxian economics in scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, and the Review of Radical Political Economics. Tony Smith is a Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. His books include The Logic of Marxs Capital: Replies to Hegelian Criticisms (1990), Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production (2000), and Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account (2005)