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Marxism and Hegel (Paperback)
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Marxism and Hegel (Paperback)
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The interpretation of Hegel has been a focal point of philosophical
controversy ever since the beginning of the twentieth century, both
among Marxists and in the major European philosophical schools. Yet
despite wide differences of emphasis most interpretations of Hegel
share important similarities. They link his idea of Reason to the
revolutionary and rationalist tradition which led to the French
Revolution, and they interpret his dialectic as implying a latently
atheist and even materialist world outlook. Lucio Colletti directly
challenges this picture of Hegel. He argues that Hegel was an
essentially Christian philosopher, and that his dialectic was
explicitly anti-materialist in both intention and effect. In
contrast to earlier views, Colletti maintains that there is no
contradiction between Hegel's method and his system, once it is
accepted that his thought is an exercise in Absolute Idealism
stemming from a long Christian humanist tradition. He claims, on
the contrary, that intellectual inconsistency is rather to be found
in the works of Engels, Lenin, Lukas, Kojeve and others, who have
attempted to adapt Hegel to their own philosophical priorities.
Colletti places his argument in the context of a broad
re-examination of the whole relationship between Marxism and the
Enlightenment, giving novel emphasis to the relationship between
Marxism and Kant. He concludes by re-asserting the importance in
Marxism of empirical science against the claim of "infinite
reason," while at the same time showing how Marx did transform key
ideas in Hegelian thought to construct a consistently materialist
dialectic.
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