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This book provides close readings of primary texts to analyze the linkage between G.W.F. Hegel's philosophy and Karl Marx's critical social theory of necessity and freedom. This is important for three reasons: first, to understand the significance of the changing relationships of work, society, and critical social theory in the origins of Hegelian-Marxism in the US, as documented in the recently published correspondence between the Marxist-Humanist theoretician Raya Dunayevskaya and the critical theorist Herbert Marcuse; second, to identify the intersections of the Critical Theorists Jurgen Habermas' and Marcuse's influential reinterpretations of Marx's "value theory" of economy and society that enables navigation of the changing relationships of the social and economic spheres in the last century, as developed in Marx's Grundrisse; and, thirdly, to assess the potential of Moishe Postone's renewal of Marx's value theory, largely conceived by the notion of a necessity andfreedom dialectic intrinsic to capitalism.
List of contents
1. Necessity and Freedom in the Origins of Hegelian-Marxism in the United States.- 2. Inside the Development of Marxist-Humanism and Critical Theory: The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse Correspondence.- 3. Hegel in Herbert Marcuse's Hegelian-Marxism, Critical Theory and Value Theory.- 4. Marx in Herbert Marcuse's Hegelian Marxism, Critical Theory, and Value Theory.- 5. Changes in Critical Theory Interpretations of Marx's Value Theory.- 6. Historical Configurations of Necessity and Freedom: The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse Correspondence, Automated Production, and the Question of Post-Capitalist Society.- 7. Moishe Postone's Deepened Interpretation of Marx's Value Theory: Grundrisse.- 8. Moishe Postone's deepened interpretation Of Marx's value theory: Capital.- 8. Conclusion: New Forms of the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic.
About the author
Russell Rockwell has taught Sociology at Fordham University, US, and St. John’s University, US, and has published journal articles on Critical Theory and Marxist Humanism. He is also co-editor (with Kevin B. Anderson) of The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx, and Critical Theory (2012).
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This book provides close readings of primary texts to analyze the linkage between G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy and Karl Marx’s critical social theory of necessity and freedom. This is important for three reasons: first, to understand the significance of the changing relationships of work, society, and critical social theory in the origins of Hegelian-Marxism in the US, as documented in the recently published correspondence between the Marxist-Humanist theoretician Raya Dunayevskaya and the critical theorist Herbert Marcuse; second, to identify the intersections of the Critical Theorists Jurgen Habermas’ and Marcuse’s influential reinterpretations of Marx’s “value theory” of economy and society that enables navigation of the changing relationships of the social and economic spheres in the last century, as developed in Marx’s Grundrisse; and, thirdly, to assess the potential of Moishe Postone’s renewal of Marx’s value theory, largely conceived by the notion of a necessity andfreedom dialectic intrinsic to capitalism.
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“The book takes a promising standpoint, novel enough, to be read thoroughly by all people interested in familiarizing themselves with such an important theme. Formally, the book is very well laid out.” (Kaveh Boveiri, Marx and Philosophy, marxandphilosophy.org.uk, April 13, 2021)
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"The book takes a promising standpoint, novel enough, to be read thoroughly by all people interested in familiarizing themselves with such an important theme. Formally, the book is very well laid out." (Kaveh Boveiri, Marx and Philosophy, marxandphilosophy.org.uk, April 13, 2021)
