The Power of Negativity : Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx
The Power of Negativity : Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx
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Author(s): Dunayevskaya, Raya
ISBN No.: 9780739102671
Pages: 428
Year: 200111
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 93.13
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Brilliant theorist, committed activist, and passionate scholar, Raya Dunayevskaya was a role-model for my generation. We are fortunate to have her back in this wonderfully edited work that conveys the excitement of a time when, for Raya and her interlocutors (C.L.R James and Herbert Marcuse among others), philosophy and the struggle against social injustice were two sides of the same urgent endeavor. Her understanding of dialectics as a method whereby each generation has to discover its own revolutionary task, her insistence that Marxism means humanism in the most inclusive sense and that socialism means the social actualization of individual freedom -- these are ideas that appear young and fresh against the weary and sophistic pessimism that dominates much theory in the academy today. And more: in contrast to the boring pap of commodified culture and political sound bites, Raya's interpretation makes the logic of Hegel's absolute idea a fascinating and compelling read.


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