A Failed Parricide: Hegel and the Young Marx

Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
 1. Science and Utopia......Page 15
 2. Hegel and the Epistemological ‘Circle’......Page 21
 3. The ‘Idea’ as an Organising Principle of Reality. Marx’s Anti-Materialism......Page 28
 4. Democritus and Epicurus: The Empiricism of the Sciences and the Idealism of Philosophy......Page 34
 5. Humanity as the Negation of Nature......Page 39
 6. Contradictions and Meteors......Page 42
 7. Ancient Atomism between Hegel and Marx......Page 47
 8. The Comparison of Idealisms. Ancient Idealism......Page 51
 9. Modern Idealism......Page 56
 10. Philosophy, World, ‘Young Hegelians’......Page 68
 11. From Poetry to Philosophy. From One Father to Another......Page 78
 12. ‘Formbestimmung’ or ‘Formal Determination’: The Keystone of Marx’s Thought......Page 88
 1. Negation and Contradiction......Page 93
 2. Intellectualistic Subjectivity and Its Bad Infinity......Page 98
 3. The False Infinity: The Secret of Ideology......Page 100
 4. The Speculative Closure. From Negation-Division to Absolute Negation......Page 105
 5. Between Anthropology and Logic......Page 112
 6. Hegel and the Young Hegelians......Page 121
 1. ‘To the Left and to the Right’......Page 123
 2. Freedom as the Absolute......Page 129
 3. A ‘Generic’ Ontology......Page 136
 1. The Divinisation of Reason......Page 150
 2. Against the Self-Foundation of the Self. Thoughts on Death and Immortality......Page 160
 3. The Overturning of Subject and Predicate......Page 173
 4. The Criticism of Hegel......Page 185
 5. The Last Feuerbach......Page 206
 6. Marx and Feuerbach......Page 211
 1. A Generalised Inversion......Page 214
 2. The Modern World as a Binary World......Page 227
 3. Hegel and Modern Civil Society......Page 237
  3.1. The System of Needs and Classical Political Economy......Page 238
  3.2. The Forms of Modern Socialisation......Page 243
  3.3. Ethics in Civil Society......Page 249
  3.4. Civil Society and the State......Page 255
 4. Mental Abstraction and Real Abstraction......Page 256
 5. A Fusional and Symbiotic Communism......Page 265
Bibliography......Page 283
Index of Names......Page 293