Hegel, Marx, and the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic

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.

Shows the current and unique social relevance of the relationship of Hegel's philosophy and Marx's critical theory. Includes an assessment of Postone's original reinterpretations of Marx's critical theory within a growing body of work that indicates a renewal of interest in the ideas of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory Helps to shape changes in the workplace, key for attaining the goal of a society free of social domination

Autorentext
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).

Inhalt

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.