EUR €142.80EUR €119.00 excl. VAT
The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 1
Author:
This book both argues for, and demonstrates, a new turn to dialectic. Marx's Capital was clearly influenced by Hegel's dialectical figures: here, case by case, the significance of these is clarified. More, it is argued that, instead of the dialectic of the rise and fall of social systems, what is needed is a method of articulating the dialectical relations characterising a given social whole. Marx learnt from Hegel the necessity for a systematic development, and integration, of categories; for example, the category of 'value' can be fully comprehended only in the context of the totality of capitalist relations. These studies thus shed new light on Marx's great work, while going beyond it in many respects.
Christopher J. Arthur studied at the Universities of Nottingham and Oxford. For 25 years he taught Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He is a leading Marx scholar whose publications include Dialectics of Labour: Marx and his Relation to Hegel (Blackwell, 1986).
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: The New Turn to Dialectic
2. Dialectical Development versus Linear Logic
3. Labour, Value and Negativity
4. Systematic Dialectic
5. Marx’s Capital and Hegel’s Logic
6. Negation of the Negation in Marx’s Capital
7. The Infinity of Capital
8. The Spectre of Capital
9. Hegel’s Theory of the Value Form
10. A Clock without a Spring: Epitaph for the USSR
11. Whose Reason? and Whose Revolution?
12. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
1. Introduction: The New Turn to Dialectic
2. Dialectical Development versus Linear Logic
3. Labour, Value and Negativity
4. Systematic Dialectic
5. Marx’s Capital and Hegel’s Logic
6. Negation of the Negation in Marx’s Capital
7. The Infinity of Capital
8. The Spectre of Capital
9. Hegel’s Theory of the Value Form
10. A Clock without a Spring: Epitaph for the USSR
11. Whose Reason? and Whose Revolution?
12. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Students and specialists engaging with Marx, especially with his Capital; those interested in the recent revival of dialectical logic; as well as teachers of philosophy, social theory, and political economy.