From Marx To Hegel And Back: Capitalism, Critique, And Utopia

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The relation between Hegel and Marx is among the most interpreted in the history of philosophy. Given the contemporary renaissance of Marx and Marxist theories, how should we re-read the Hegel-Marx connection today? What place does Hegel have in contemporary critical thinking? Most schools of Marxism regard Marx's inversion of Hegel's dialectics as a progressive development, leaving behind Hegel's idealism by transforming it into a materialist critique of political economy. Other Marxist approaches argue that the mature Marx completely broke with Hegel. By contrast, this book offers a wide-ranging and innovative understanding of Hegel as an empirically informed theorist of the social, political, and economic world. It proposes a movement 'from Marx to Hegel and back', by exploring the intersections where the two thinkers can be read as mutually complementing or even reinforcing one another. With a particular focus on essential concepts like recognition, love, revolution, freedom, and the idea of critique, this new intervention into Hegelian and Marxian philosophy unifies the ethical content of Hegel's philosophy with the power of Marx's social and economic critique of the contemporary world. Contents Contributors Acknowledgments 1 From Marx to Hegel and Back: Toward a Helical Approach • Victoria Fareld and Hannes Kuch Part 1 Reassessing the Legacy of Hegel and Marx 2 Hegel and Marx: A Reassessment after One Century • Axel Honneth 3 Hegel, Marx, and Presentism • Emmanuel Renault 4 Property and Freedom in Kant, Hegel, and Marx • Jacob Blumenfeld 5 I, the Revolution, Speak: Lenin’s Speculative (Hegelian) Style • Frank Ruda Part 2 Capitalism and Critique 6 Critique in Hegel and Marx • Rocío Zambrana 7 Hegel and Marx on ‘Spiritual Life’ as a Criterion for Social Critique • Frederick Neuhouser 8 Abstract Labor and Recognition • Sven Ellmers 9 Love Will Tear Us Apart: Marx and Hegel on the Materiality of Erotic Bonds • Federica Gregoratto Part 3 Postcapitalism and Utopia 10 Marx’s ‘Hegelian’ Critique of Utopia • David Leopold 11 Where Are We Developing the Requirements for a New Society? The Dialectic of Today’s Capitalism from a Hegelian-Marxist Perspective • Eva Bockenheimer 12 Social Freedom beyond Capitalism: Three Alternatives • Hannes Kuch 13 Honneth’s Democratic Sittlichkeit and Market Socialism • Michael Nance Index