The Logic of Marx's Capital - Replies to Hegelian Criticisms

Beginning with "value" and "commodity" at the start of Volume I in Marx's major work, and progressing step-by-step to the end of Volume III, Smith establishes in detail that Capital is a systematic theory of socio-economic categories ordered according to dialectical logic. At each stage in his analysis of the theory Smith makes Marx's arguments more accessible. He also considers in depth the objections to Marx's employment of dialectical logic that have been formulated by Hegelians (especially those presented in Klaus Hartmann's Die Marxsche Theorie). Smith presents a persuasive case against this whole range of Marx criticisms, many of which have also been proposed from non-Hegelian standpoints.

About the author

Tony Smith is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Iowa State University. He is the author of three other books published by the SUNY Press, The Logic of Marx's Capital: Replies to Hegelian Criticisms, The Role of Ethics in Social Theory, and Dialectical Social Theory and Its Critics: From Hegel to Analytical Marxism and Postmodernism.

Product details

• Authors: Tony Smith
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.07.1990
• EAN: 9780791402689
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0268-9
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Suny Series in the Shaiva Trad; Suny Series in the Shaiva Trad; Suny the Philosophy of the Soc
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education