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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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