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Author:   Eugene Gogol
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   45
Weight:   1.680kg
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9789004224681

ISBN 10:   9004224688
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   22 August 2012
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Philosophy, Organization, and the Work of Raya Dunayevskaya I. The Contradictory Reality of the Present Moment and Its Relation to a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization II. The Project of Dunayevskaya: Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy III. The Form for the Present Study Prologue: The Dialectic in Philosophy Itself I. What Is Hegel's Journey of Absolute Spirit? II. Why a Negation of the Negation? III. Can We See Hegel's Absolutes, Not as a Closed Totality, but As New Beginning? PART I: ON SPONTANEOUS FORMS OF ORGANIZATION VS. VANGUARD PARTIES 1: Marx's Concept of Organization: From the Silesian Weavers' Uprising to the First Years of the International Workingmen's Association I. A Preliminary Note-Marx: Revolutionary Organization and the Organization of Thought II. 1843-52, Critique of Ideas/Tendencies-and the Movement of the Workers III. From the Early 1850s to the Early 1860s: A Brief Note on Marx's Organization of Thought and the Party IV. A New Organizational Form: Marx and the International Working Men's Association 2: The Commune of Paris, 1871: Mass Spontaneity in Action and Thought; Responsibility of the Revolutionary Intellectual: The Two-War Road Between Marx and the Commune I. A Non-State State: The Paris Commune as a Form of Workers' Rule II. The Civil War in France- Drafts and Address, and the French Edition of Capital III. The Commune Deepens Marx's Concept of Organization-- The First International After 1871 Appendix: Marx excerpts from first and second drafts of The Civil War in France 3: The Second International, The German Social Democracy, and Engels after Marx-Organization without Marx's Organization of Thought I. A Preliminary Note on Lassalle II. Fetishism of Organization: The Second International and the Germany Social Democracy III. Engels' Relation to German Social Democracy and to Marx's Marxism: What Tactics? What Theory? What Philosophy? Appendix: The Interlude that Never Ended Organizationally Forms of Organization and Struggle in Revolutionary Russia 4: The 1905 Russian Revolution: Mass Proletarian Self-Activity and Its Relation to the Organizational Thought of Marxist Revolutionaries I. 1905 in Life and in Books: New Forms of Struggle; New Forms of Organization II. Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg: Attitudes Toward and Theoretical Ramifications of 1905, Particularly with Regard to Revolutionary Organization 5: The Russian Revolution of 1917 and Beyond I. February-October, 1917: Forms of Organization From Below; Developments and Struggles Within Bolshevism II. Russia post-October: Workers, Bolsheviks and the State-New Beginnings and Grave Contradictions in the Revolution 6: Out of the Russia Revolution: Legacy and Critique-Luxemburg, Pannekoek, Trotsky I. Luxemburg and Two Revolutions-Russia, 1917-18; Germany, 1918-19 II. Pannekoek's Council Communism III. In Exile: A Brief Note on Trotsky's Concept of Revolutionary Organization and View of Proletarian Subjectivity 7: Organizational Forms from the Spanish Revolution I. The Revolution Begins and Develops II. The Communist Party Works to Dismantle the Revolution 8: The Hungarian Workers' Councils in the Revolution: A Movement from Practice that Is a Form of Theory Prelude: East Germany, 1953 I. The First Days II. The Turning Point III. The Counter-Revolution and the Proletarian Response IV. Postscript: East Europe post-Hungary 1956-Resistance-in-Permanence; Contradictions Within PART II: HEGEL AND MARX 9: Can Absolute Knowing in Hegel's Phenomenology Speak to a Dialectic of Organization and Philosophy? I. A Note on Hegel's Method in Absolute Knowledge II. Marx's Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic III. Spirit's Journey in Absolute Knowledge: Externalization (Entausserung) and Recollection/Inwardization (Erinnerung) IV. The Dialectic in Philosophy Itself: Does It Bring Forth a Dialectic of Organization?-A Reading of Absolute Knowing from Dunayevskaya 10: Rereading Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program Today Appendix: Marx on Necessity, Freedom, Time and Labor PART III: HEGEL AND LENIN 11: Lenin and Hegel-The Profound Philosophic Breakthrough that Failed to Encompass Revolutionary Organization I. Introduction II. A Preliminary Note on Lenin's Philosophic Exploration of Hegel III. A Brief Survey of Dunayevskaya's Explorations of Lenin's Hegelian Vantage Point Prior to 1985-87. IV. Dunayevskaya's 'Changed Perception of Lenin Philosophic Ambivalence': Fusing a mid-1980s Vantage Point with a 1953 Philosophic Breakthrough V. Organizational Ramifications 12: Hegel's Critique of the Third Attitude to Objectivity-Its Relation to Organization I. Introduction: The Three Attitudes to Objectivity II. Dunayevskaya's 1961 Reading of the Third Attitude to Objectivity III. Dunayevskaya's New 1986 Reading of the Third Attitude to Objectivity PART IV: DIALECTICS OF ORGANIZATION AND PHILOSOPHY IN POST-WORLD WAR II WORLD: THE WORK OF RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA 13: Moments in the Development of Dunayevskaya's Marxist-Humanism I. A Preliminary Note on War and Revolution as Turning Points for Radical Thought: The Moment of the Theory of State-Capitalism as Needed Ground for Marxist-Humanism II. Dunayevskaya's Letters on Hegel's Absolutes, May 12 and 20 1953: The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism III. The Organization of Thought which Determines Organizational Life: Developing Marxist-Humanism and News and Letters Committees IV. Dunayevskaya's Presentation on Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy, June 1, 1987-A New Philosophic Category and a Challenge for News and Letters Praxis Appendices: 1) Dunayevskaya Letter on Meeting a Cameroonian Revolutionary; 2) Andy Philips on Dunayevskaya's Participation in 1949-50 Miners' General Strike; 3. Preamble to the Original Constitution of News and Letters Committees, 1956 PART V: CONCLUSION 14: What Philosophic-Organizational Vantage Point Is Needed? I. Recent Challenges to Hegel's Dialectics of Negativity II. What Is the Dialectic of Marx's Capital? III. Once Again Hegel's Dialectic of Negativity-Its Concretization/Praxis as Organizational Expression; Its Meaning for Today Bibliograhy Index

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Gogol's argument is urgent and single-minded, and his materials refreshingly original. [a] wonderful book. - Ben Watson, in: Radical Philosophy 182 (Nov/Dec 2013) Toward a Dialectic ought to be taken as an important contribution to an on-going project to reveal the logic of the development of emancipatory organization. - Andy Blunden, in: Marx & Philosophy, 31 January 2013

Gogol's argument is urgent and single-minded, and his materials refreshingly original. [a] wonderful book. Ben Watson, Radical Philosophy 182 (Nov/Dec 2013) Toward a Dialectic ought to be taken as an important contribution to an on-going project to reveal the logic of the development of emancipatory organization. Andy Blunden, Marx & Philosophy, 31 January 2013

Toward a Dialectic ought to be taken as an important contribution to an on-going project to reveal the logic of the development of emancipatory organization. Andy Blunden, Marx & Philosophy, 31 January 2013

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Eugene Gogol is a Marxist-Humanist activist-writer. His books include The Concept of Other in Latin American Liberation and Raya Dunayevskaya: Philosopher of Marxist-Humanism.

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