Hegel, Heraclitus and Marx's Dialectic

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Heraclitus's Philosophy and the Origins of Dialectic
	The doctrine of flux
	The unity of opposites
	Knowledge and the world
	Heraclitus, Hegel and Marx
	Notes
2. Kant's Dialectic and Hegel's Logic
	Introduction: Kant and the limits of reason
	The scope and origins of Hegel's Logic
	Idealist dialectic in the Logic—some criticisms
	The terminology of dialectical logic
	A logic of objects (or the unity of form and content)
	The limitations of the judgement
	Notes
3. Dialectical Logic I
	Logic and ontology
	'The laws of thought'
	Identity
	Contradiction
	The law of the excluded middle
	Notes
4. Dialectical Logic II
	The transition from the objective logic to the subjective logic
	Hegel on the syllogism
	Notes
5. The Meaning of Aufhebung and Vorstellung in Hegel's Philosophy
	Notes
6. Dialectic in Man's Capital
	Facts
	Two concepts of appearance
	The distinction between the mode of presentation and the mode of research
	The rational form of dialectic
	Concrete abstraction
	Notes
7. Man's Dialectical Mode of Presentation: the Circulation of Commodities
	The value form
	The fetishism of commodities
	Notes
8. Contradiction and Dialectical Transition in Marx
	Contradiction
	Say's Law and the unity of opposites
	The dialectical transition
	The dialectic of property
		The transformation of quantity into quality
		The negation of the negation
	Notes
9. Conclusion
	Adorno's negative dialectic
	The philosophical status of Marx's Capital
	'The true is the whole'
	Essence and appearance
	The unity of opposites
	Real contradictions
	Notes
Selected Bibliography and Further Reading
Index