From Marx to Hegel and Back

A source of knowledge about contemporary critical theory. * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books * The legacy of Hegel's concepts and method within Marx's thinking is one of the most decisive and most contested issues in contemporary critical theory. In the last two decades, new interpretations of Hegel and a renewed interest in the diagnostic power of Marx's writings have challenged many of the established assumptions and made a full reassessment of that key theoretical nexus necessary. This volume, which brings together up-and-coming scholars and some of the best experts in the field, is a major contribution towards that goal. * Jean-Philippe Deranty, Associate Professor, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia * These vital and necessary essays argue for the renewal and refashioning of the radical tradition of Hegelian-Marxism. Collectively, the seek to install a materialist Hegel; an always Hegelian Marx; a formation of critical theory driven by the force of the negative and struggles for recognition; and, above all, for tomorrow's socialism in which social freedom and democratic self-determination might come to be. Urgent and important. * J.M. Bernstein, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research, U.S.A. *

Victoria Fareld is Associate Professor of Intellectual History at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University, Sweden. Hannes Kuch is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany.

From Marx to Hegel and Back: Toward a Helical Approach, Victoria Fareld (Stockholm University, Sweden) and Hannes Kuch(Hanover Institute of Philosophical Research, Germany) I. Reassessing the Legacy of Hegel and Marx Hegel and Marx: A Reassessment after One Century, Axel Honneth (University of Frankfurt, Germany and Columbia University, USA) Hegel, Marx, and Presentism, Emmanuel Renault (Paris West University Nanterre La Defense, France) Property and Freedom in Kant, Hegel, and Marx, Jacob Blumenfeld (New School for Social Research, USA) I, the Revolution, Speak: Lenin's Speculative (Hegelian) Style, Frank Ruda (University of Frankfurt, Germany) II. Capitalism and Critique Critique in Hegel and Marx, Rocio Zambrana (University of Oregon, USA) Hegel and Marx on 'Spiritual Life' as a Criterion for Social Critique, Frederick Neuhouser (Columbia University, USA) Abstract Labor and Recognition, Sven Ellmers(Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany) Love Will Tear Us Apart: Marx and Hegel on the Materiality of Erotic Bonds, Federica Gregoratto(University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) III. Postcapitalism and Utopia Marx's 'Hegelian' Critique of Utopia, David Leopold (University of Oxford, UK) Where Are We Developing the Requirements for a New Society? The Dialectic of Today's Capitalism from a Hegelian Marxist Perspective, Eva Bockenheimer (University of Siegen, Germany) Social Freedom beyond Capitalism: Three Alternatives, Hannes Kuch (Hanover Institute of Philosophical Research, Germany) Honneth's Democratic 'Sittlichkeit' and Market Socialism, Michael Nance (University of Maryland, USA) Contributors Sources Index