Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 18:30:56 +0700 From: djones-AT-uclink.berkeley.edu (donna jones) Subject: marx/hegel In my readings, I have found the following to be helpful in understanding the relationship between Marx and Hegel Geoffrey Pilling, Marx's Capital (see also his introduction to "Letters on Capital" published by New Park).(If anyone knows of anything else he has written, please inform me; I have an early piece on the law of value and his book on keynesianism, but have not been able to find anything else). Patrick Murray, Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledge; some of the very important ideas here are the discussion of the Hegelian understanding of the appearance/essence relation and the explication of the religious mediation of essential contradictions. Fred Moseley, ed. Marx's Method (which includes an essay by Mattick, Jr., which is the main dissent in that volume in that it argues an understanding of marx's dialectic does not require a mastery of hegel's logic). Daniel Little also attempt to free marxism from hegelian dialectics in his scientific marx A profound and hegelian (and very accessible) discussion of commodity fetishism can be found in Arthur Ripstein "Commodity Fetishism" in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, v 17,n4,12/87. In his last post, Trotter spoke of a break in the late marx from a unilinear view of history. He did not say whether this was to be understood also as a break from a hegelian view of history. I found the discussion of hegel, eurocentricism and history in Enrique Dussel "Eurocentricism and Modernity" quite interesting. The piece can be found in boundary 2 20:3, 1993. See also the last chapter of Mattick, jr. Social Knowledge, 1986. I am hoping that some others take up the discussion that Trotter has begun. Chris recommended Ollman's work which I have just picked up, and I would like to call attention to a 1937 text by TA Jackson Dialectics--though Stalinist, it has been treated very favorably by the anti-stalinist Helena Sheehan in her Marxism and the Philosophy of Science of which I have only read a few parts. d jones
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