The myth of dialectics : reinterpreting the Marx - Hegel relation

Two Principles of Contradiction 9 The Word Made Flesh or Hegel's Incarnation of Logic 9.1 'Logic' as Pars Totalis of the Hegelian System 98 9.2 The Universal and the Particular in 'Geisf 9.3 The Universal and the Particular in Nature 10 The 'Reality' of Contradiction 10.1 Truth and Falsity in an Extra-Logical Sense 10.2 Hegel on Judgement 10.3 The Hegelian 'Syllogism' and the Syllogism 10.4 'Real' Syllogisms and 'Living' Judgements 10.5 The Basic Principle of Materialism 10.6 Wilt and Diego: On the 'Identity of Opposites' 10.7 The Paralogical Hinge of Hegel's Exposition 10.8 The Opposite of Limitation 10.9 'Contradiction' before Judgement 10.10 The 'Reality' of Contradiction Appendix Hegel's 'Transition' of Identity into Difference Part IV The Objectivity of the Economic 11 A Fortuitous Theoretical Isomorphism 12 The 'Subject-Predicate Reversal': an Excursus on Marx's Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State 149 12.1 'The Illusion of Real Knowledge' 12.2 An Example: The Hegelian 'Derivation' of the Monarch 152 13 Some Passing Remarks on the 'New' Hegelian Marxism 14 The Universal and the Particular in the Constitution of Value 163 14.1 Value-Relation and Value-Form 163 14.2 The Extrinsic and Intrinsic Measures of Value 166 15 Money, or the Real Universality of Commodities 172 15.1 The Principle of Contradiction and the Necessity of Money 172 15.2 From Medium of Exchange to Measure of Value 177 Contents vn 15.3 The Money-Commodity and its Proxies 15.4 The Standard of Price 15.5 The Christ of Commodities 16 The Metaphysics of Value: On Second-Order Objectivity Marx's Capital And The Myth Of 'dialectics' -- 'rigmarole' Or 'method'? -- Marx On The 'marx-hegel Relation' -- The 'famous Quotations' -- 'dialectics' And The Concept Of Historical Change -- The Third Founder -- Or I.i. Kaufman's 'marxism' -- 'dialectics', Historicity And The Logic Of Capital -- The Historicist Discourse -- The Varieties Of Historicism -- The 'method Of Capital' As Dynamic Historicism -- The Poverty Of The Historicist Interpretation -- The Historicist Model And Hegel -- The Historicity Of Capitalist Production And The Critique Of Political Economy -- Reification And Exchange -- Concepts And Objects -- The Categories Of Political Economy -- The Division Of Labour And The Concept Of Society -- The Dual Objectivity Of Money And Commodities -- The 'practical Concepts' Of Exchange -- Property And Person (or The Birth Of The Juridical Subject) -- The Objectification Of Social Relations -- Money As A Social Relation -- Capital As A Social Relation -- A Brief Digression On Rent -- Capital As A Social Relation (continued) -- An 'idealism Of Matter' -- 'dialectical' Contradiction And The Logicization Of The Empirical -- Two Principles Of Contradiction -- The Word Made Flesh Or Hegel's Incarnation Of Logic -- 'logic' As Pars Totalis Of The Hegelian System -- The Universal And The Particular In 'geist' -- The Universal And The Particular In Nature -- The 'reality' Of Contradiction -- Truth And Falsity In An Extra-logical Sense -- Hegel On Judgement -- The Hegelian 'syllogism' And The Syllogism. John Rosenthal. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 196-230) And Index. This book has two themes: an esoteric and a mundane one. The esoteric theme is the "Marx-Hegel relation" and the mysteries of "dialectics" which are commonly supposed to comprise its core. The mundane theme is money and the distinctive mode of sociality -- namely the "market" -- which gives rise both to existence of economic value and the real medium of existence of the latter which money, in effect, is. In the clarification of the mundane theme, it will be suggested, lies the key to resolving the mysteries of the esoteric one. The substantive aim which the author sets himself is that of clarifying the practical logic of exchange which gives rise to this mysterious "value-objectivity". Rejects both the return to a specifically Hegelian Marxism and the earlier reformulation of Marx in an analytical neoclassical mode, in an attempt to steer a third way that stresses the Marxian theory of value. The author argues that Marx's value theory was a unique theory of money that is able to apply scientific rationality to the mysticism of Hegel because money is the 'existent universal' or essence of exchange-value. Examines the specificity of the exchange system to show that money is nothing other than control over definite portions of the total labor needed for the social product. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. For a century now Marxists have been searching for a 'rational kernel' of Hegelian 'dialectics' inside the 'mystical shell' of the Hegelian system. As against this entire tradition, Rosenthal insists that Hegelian philosophy is mysticism all the way through. He argues that Marx's supposed ̀dialectic method' is simply a myth propagated by academics and proposes the provocative thesis that it is not, after all, Hegel's 'method' of which Marx made use in Capital but rather precisely Hegel's mysticism. The role of money in Marx and Hegel is examined in detail