The Escape from Hegel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10488201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Rosenthal (Department of Philosophy Colorado College 14 East Cache La Poudre Street Colorado Springs, CO 80903, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 283-309 |
| Publication date | 1999-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-8237 • E-ISSN: 1943-2801 |
| Publisher | Guilford Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/003682379906300302 |
| OpenAlex | W22817633 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 6 |
At least since the publication of Roman Rosdolsky's The Making of Marx's Capital , the Grundrisse has been an essential refer-ence for anyone wishing to demonstrate a significant dependence of Marx's political economy upon Hegelian “logic.” Contrary to Rosdolsky's interpretation, however, the Grundrisse can in fact be read as the drama of Marx's escape from his Hegelian philosophical heritage. Hegel's “dialectical method” is not a method of logi-cal argumentation, but a “method” of paralogical mystification. Marx's own attempts to construct “dialectical derivations” of eco-nomic categories in the Grundrisse lead him into theoretical culs-de-sac , and he is only able to make real progress in his economic inves-tigations by precisely foregoing such adventures. The persistence, nonetheless, of certain characteristically Hegelian formulae - though, n.b., not characteristically Hegelian argumentational struc-tures - in Capital , and especially in the first chapter, is a function of the ontological peculiarity of Marx's initial object of inquiry, viz., money, and does not reflect any “methodological” choice. Marx's arguments in Capital are not “dialectical” but rather “transcenden-tal” in nature, starting from given market phenomena (prices, profit, etc.) and working back to their conditions of possibility
Antinomy · Capital (architecture · Dialectic · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Physics · Theoretical physics · Transcendental number · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic Theory and Policy · History · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2009 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |