The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx (The Raya Dunayevskaya Series in Marxism and Humanism)

Raya Dunayevskaya is hailed as the founder of Marxist-Humanism in the United States. In this new collection of her essays co-editors Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson have crafted a work in which the true power and originality of Dunayevskaya's ideas are displayed. This extensive collection of writings on Hegel, Marx, and dialectics captures Dunayevskaya's central dictum that, contrary to the established views of Hegelians and Marxists, Hegel was of signal importance to the theory and practice of Marxism. The Power of Negativity sheds light not only on Marxist-Humanism and the rooting of Dunayevskaya's Marxist-Humanist theories in Hegel, but also on the life of one of America's most penetrating and provocative critical thinkers. pt. I. The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism. Ch. 1. Presentation on the Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy (June 1, 1987). The Philosophic Point. Dialectics of Organization. Conclusion: Untrodden Paths in Organization. Ch. 2. Letters on Hegel's Absolutes of May 12 and 20, 1953. Letter on Hegel's Science of Logic (May 12, 1953). Letter on Hegel's Philosophy of Mind (May 20, 1953) -- pt. II. Studies in Hegelian and Marxian Dialectics, 1956-63. Ch. 3. Notes on Hegel's Phenomenology. Ch. 4. Rough Notes on Hegel's Science of Logic. Volume I: Objective Logic. Volume II: Subjective Logic or the Doctrine of the Notion. Ch. 5. Notes on the Smaller Logic from the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences. Chapter Two -- Preliminary Notion. A collection of writings on Hegel, Marx and dialectics captures the central dictum of Raya Dunayevskaya, which contrary to the established views of Hegelians and Marxists, maintains that Hegel was of signal importance to the theory and practice of Marxism.