The Power of Negativity

Peter Hudis; Kevin B. Anderson; Raya Dunayevskaya

doi:10.5771/9780739159453

Summary

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.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2001
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-0266-4
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-5945-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 387
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Abbreviations No access
4. Editors' Note No access
5. Introduction No access
1. 1. The Philosophic Point No access
  2. Dialectics of Organization No access
  3. Conclusion: Untrodden Paths in Organization No access
2. 1. Letter on Hegel's Science of Logic (May 12, 1953) No access
  2. Letter on Hegel's Philosophy of Mind (May 20, 1953) No access
1. Chapter 3 Notes on Hegel's Phenomenology No access
2. 1. Volume I: Objective Logic No access
  2. Volume II: Subjective Logic orthe Doctrine of the Notion No access
3. 1. Chapter Two―Preliminary Notion No access
  2. Chapter Three―First Attitude of ThoughtToward the Objective World No access
  3. Chapter Four―Second Attitude of ThoughtToward the Objective World No access
  4. Chapter Five―Third Attitude of Thought Toward the Objective World No access
  5. Chapter Six―The Proximate Notion of Logicwith its Subdivision No access
  6. Chapter Seven―First Subdivision of Logic―The Doctrine of Being No access
  7. Chapter Eight―Second Subdivision of Logic―The Doctrine of Essence No access
  8. Chapter Nine―Third Subdivision of Logic―The Doctrine of the Notion No access
4. 1. Letter on Marxism and Freedom, from 1776 untilToday (May 18, 1956) No access
  2. Letter to Herbert Marcuse (July 15,1958) No access
  3. Letter to Herbert Marcuse (October 16, 1960) No access
  4. Letter to Herbert Marcuse (January 12, 1961) No access
  5. Letter to Charles Denby (March 10, 1960) No access
  6. Letter to Jonathan Spence (June 1, 1961) No access
  7. Letter to Erich Fromm (November 11, 1963) No access
1. Chapter 7 Letter of October 27, 1964, to Herbert Marcuse No access
2. 1. Lecture in Japan on Hegel No access
  2. Presentation to Black/Red Conference No access
  3. Logic as Stages of Freedom, Stages of Freedom as Logic, or the Needed American Revolution No access
3. 1. Letter on Hegel's Theory of Tragedy (November 17, 1968) No access
  2. Letter on Draft of Chapter 1 of Philosophy and Revolution (October 13,1968) No access
  3. The Newness of our Philosophic..Historic Contribution No access
1. Chapter 10 Hegel's Absolute as New Beginning No access
2. Chapter 11 Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Fanon, and the Dialectics of Liberation Today No access
3. 1. Letter on Lukacs (December 14, 1972) No access
  2. Lukacs' Philosophic Dimension No access
4. 1. Letter to Harry McShane No access
  2. On the 150th Anniversary of Hegel's Death: How Valid for our Day Are Marx's Hegelian Roots? No access
1. 1. On the Battle of Ideas: Philosophic..Theoretic Points of Departure as Political Tendencies Respond to the Objective Situation No access
  2. Letter on Karl Korsch (1983) No access
  3. Marxist..Humanism: The Summation That Is a New Beginning, Subjectively and Objectively (1983) No access
2. 1. Not by Practice Alone: The Movement from Theory No access
  2. Letter to the Youth on the Needed Total Uprooting of the Old and the Creation of New Human Relations No access
  3. Dialectics of Revolution and of Women's Liberation No access
  4. The Power of Abstraction No access
3. 1. Letter on Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind (June 26, 1986) No access
  2. Introduction to "Why Hegel's Phenomenology?Why Now?" No access
4. 1. Letter to Louis Dupre No access
  2. Letter to George Armstrong Kelly No access
  3. Talking to Myself No access
  4. On Political Divides and Philosophic NewBeginnings No access
Appendix Excerpts from 1949-51 Philosophic Correspondence with C. L. R. James and Grace Lee Boggs No access Pages 343 - 356
Select Bibliography No access Pages 357 - 366
Index No access Pages 367 - 387