The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx

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INTRODUCTION - Raya Dunayevskaya’s Concept of Dialectic
PART I - THE PHILOSOPHIC MOMENT OF MARXIST-HUMANISM
	CHAPTER ONE - Presentation on the Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy (June 1, 1987)
		The Philosophic Point
		Dialectics of Organization
		Conclusion: Untrodden Paths in Organization
		NOTES
	CHAPTER TWO - Letters on Hegel’s Absolutes of May 12 and 20, 1953
		Letter on Hegel’s Science of Logic (May 12, 1953)
		Letter on Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind (May 20, 1953)
		NOTES
PART II - STUDIES IN HEGELIAN AND MARXIAN DIALECTICS, 1956—63
	CHAPTER THREE - Notes on Hegel’s Phenomenology
		NOTES
	CHAPTER FOUR - Rough Notes on Hegel’s Science of Logic
		Volume I: Objective Logic
		Volume II: Subjective Logic or the Doctrine of the Notion
		NOTES
	CHAPTER FIVE - Notes on the Smaller Logic from the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences
		Chapter Two—Preliminary Notion
		Chapter Three—First Attitude of Thought Toward the Objective World
		Chapter Four—Second Attitude of Thought Toward the Objective World
		Chapter Five—Third Attitude of Thought Toward the Objective World
		Chapter Six—The Proximate Notion of Logic with its Subdivision
		Chapter Seven—First Subdivision of Logic—The Doctrine of Being
		Chapter Eight—Second Subdivision of Logic—The Doctrine of Essence
		Chapter Nine—Third Subdivision of Logic—The Doctrine of the Notion
		NOTES
	CHAPTER SIX - Dialogue on the Dialectic
		Letter on Marxism and Freedom, from 1776 until Today (May 18, 1956)
		Letter to Herbert Marcuse (July 15, 1958)
		Letter to Herbert Marcuse (October 16, 1960)
		Letter to Herbert Marcuse (January 12, 1961)
		Letter to Charles Denby (March 10, 1960)
		Letter to Jonathan Spence (June 1, 1961)
		Letter to Erich Fromm (November 11, 1963)
		NOTES
PART III - THEORY AND PRACTICE AT A TURNING POINT, 1964—71
	CHAPTER SEVEN - Letter of October 27, 1964, to Herbert Marcuse
		NOTES
	CHAPTER EIGHT - Hegel’s Dialectic and the Freedom Struggles of the 1960s
		Lecture in Japan on Hegel
		Presentation to the Black/Red Conference
		Logic as Stages of Freedom, Stages of Freedom as Logic, or the Needed American Revolution
		NOTES
	CHAPTER NINE - Toward Philosophy and Revolution, from Hegel to Sartre and from Marx to Mao
		Letter on Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy (November 17, 1968)
		Letter on Draft of Chapter 1 of Philosophy and Revolution (October 13, 1968)
		The Newness of our Philosophic-Historic Contribution
		NOTES
PART IV - AFTER PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION: HEGEL’S ABSOLUTES AND MARX’S HUMANISM, 1972—81
	CHAPTER TEN - Hegel’s Absolute as New Beginning
		NOTES
	CHAPTER ELEVEN - Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Fanon, and the Dialectics of Liberation Today
		NOTES
	CHAPTER TWELVE - On Lukács’ Marxism
		Letter on Lukács (December 14, 1972)
		Lukács’ Philosophic Dimension
		NOTES
	CHAPTER THIRTEEN - The Hegel-Marx Relation Revisited
		Letter to Harry McShane
		On the 150th Anniversary of Hegel’s Death: How Valid for our Day Are Marx’s Hegelian Roots?
		NOTES
PART V - THE CHANGED WORLD AND THE NEED FOR PHILOSOPHIC NEW BEGINNINGS, 1982—87
	CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Marxist-Humanism and the Battle of Ideas
		On the Battle of Ideas: Philosophic-Theoretic Points of Departure as Political Tendencies Respond to the Objective Situation
		Letter on Karl Korsch (1983)
		Marxist-Humanism: The Summation That Is a New Beginning, Subjectively and Objectively (1983)
		NOTES
	CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Forces of Revolt as Reason, Philosophy as Force of Revolt
		Not By Practice Alone: The Movement From Theory
		Letter to the Youth on the Needed Total Uprooting of the Old and the Creation of New Human Relations
		Dialectics of Revolution and of Women’s Liberation
		The Power of Abstraction
		NOTES
	CHAPTER SIXTEEN - Another Look at Hegel’s Phenomenology of Mind
		Letter on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Mind (June 26, 1986)
		Introduction to “Why Hegel’s Phenomenology? Why Now?”
		NOTES
	CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Reconsidering the Dialectic: Critiquing Lenin . . . and the Dialectics of Philosophy and Organization
		Letter to Louis Dupré
		Letter to George Armstrong Kelly
		Talking to Myself
		On Political Divides and Philosophic New Beginnings
		NOTES
APPENDIX - EXCERPTS FROM 1949—51 PHILOSOPHIC CORRESPONDENCE WITH C. L. R. JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS
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