The Power of Negativity Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx

by Dunayevskaya, Raya; Hudis, Peter; Anderson, Kevin B.

• ISBN13: 9780739102664
• ISBN10: 0739102664
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-13
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Raya Dunayevskaya is hailed as the founder of Marxist-Humanism in the United States. After breaking with Leon Trotsky in 1939 and heading west, Dunayevskaya labeled Stalin's Russia a totalitarian state-capitalist society. In this new collection of her essays co-editors Peter Hudis and Kevin Anderson have crafted a work in which the true power and originality of Dunayevskaya's ideas are displayed.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Abbreviations	xi
Editors' Note	xiii
Introduction	xv
Part I: The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism
Presentation on the Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy (June 1, 1987)	3	(12)
The Philosophic Point
Dialectics of Organization
Conclusion: Untrodden Paths in Organization
Letters on Hegel's Absolutes of May 12 and 20, 1953	15	(20)
Letter on Hegel's Science of Logic (May 12, 1953)
Letter on Hegel's Philosophy of Mind (May 20, 1953)
Part II: Studies in Hegelian and Marxian Dialectics, 1956--63
Notes on Hegel's Phenomenology	35	(14)
Rough Notes on Hegel's Science of Logic	49	(28)
Volume I: Objective Logic
Volume II: Subjective Logic or the Doctrine of the Notion
Notes on the Smaller Logic from the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences	77	(14)
Preliminary Notion
First Attitude of Thought Toward the Objective World
Second Attitude of Thought Toward the Objective World
Third Attitude of Thought Toward the Objective World
The Proximate Notion of Logic with its Subdivision
First Subdivision of Logic---The Doctrine of Being
Second Subdivision of Logic---The Doctrine of Essence
Third Subdivision of Logic---The Doctrine of the Notion
Dialogue on the Dialectic	91	(38)
Letter on Marxism and Freedom, from 1776 until Today (May 18, 1956)
Letter to Herbert Marcuse (July 15, 1958)
Letter to Herbert Marcuse (October 16, 1960)
Letter to Herbert Marcuse (January 12, 1961)
Letter to Charles Denby (March 10, 1960)
Letter to Jonathan Spence (June 1, 1961)
Letter to Erich Fromm (November 11, 1963)
Part III: Theory and Practice at a Turning Point, 1964--71
Letter of October 27, 1964, to Herbert Marcuse	129	(8)
Hegel's Dialectic and the Freedom Struggles of the 1960s	137	(24)
Lecture in Japan on Hegel
Presentation to Black/Red Conference
Logic as Stages of Freedom, Stages of Freedom as Logic, or the Needed American Revolution
Toward Philosophy and Revolution, from Hegel to Sartre and from Marx to Mao	161	(16)
Letter on Hegel's Theory of Tragedy (November 17, 1968)
Letter on Draft of Chapter 1 of Philosophy and Revolution (October 13, 1968)
The Newness of our Philosophic-Historic Contribution
Part IV: After Philosophy and Revolution: Hegel's Absolutes and Marx's Humanism, 1972--81
Hegel's Absolute as New Beginning	177	(14)
Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Fanon, and the Dialectics of Liberation Today	191	(22)
On Lukacs' Marxism	213	(12)
Letter on Lukacs (December 14, 1972)
Lukacs' Philosophic Dimension
The Hegel-Marx Relation Revisited	225	(12)
Letter to Harry McShane
On the 150th Anniversary of Hegel's Death: How Valid for our Day Are Marx's Hegelian Roots?
Part V: The Changed World and the Need for Philosophic New Beginnings, 1982--87
Marxist-Humanism and the Battle of Ideas	237	(36)
On the Battle of Ideas: Philosophic-Theoretic Points of Departure as Political Tendencies Respond to the Objective Situation
Letter on Karl Korsch (1983)
Marxist-Humanism: The Summation That Is a New Beginning, Subjectively and Objectively (1983)
Forces of Revolt as Reason, Philosophy as Force of Revolt	273	(46)
Not by Practice Alone: The Movement from Theory
Letter to the Youth on the Needed Total Uprooting of the Old and the Creation of New Human Relations
Dialectics of Revolution and of Women's Liberation
The Power of Abstraction
Another Look at Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind	319	(6)
Letter on Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind (June 26, 1986)
Introduction to ``Why Hegel's Phenomenology? Why Now?''
Reconsidering the Dialectic: Critiquing Lenin...and the Dialectics of Philosophy and Organization	325	(18)
Letter to Louis Dupre
Letter to George Armstrong Kelly
Talking to Myself
On Political Divides and Philosophic New Beginnings
Appendix Excerpts from 1949--51 Philosophic Correspondence with C. L. R. James and Grace Lee Boggs	343	(14)
Select Bibliography	357	(10)
Index	367