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NEWS & LETTERS, January-February 2002

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

Contents

Introduction by Peter Hudis and Kevin Anderson

Part I

The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism

  1. Presentation on the Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy (June 1, 1987)

  2. Letters on Hegel’s Absolutes

    1. Letter on Hegel’s SCIENCE OF LOGIC (May 12, 1953)

    2. Letter on Hegel’s PHILOSOPHY OF MIND (May 20, 1953)

Part II

Studies in Hegelian and Marxian Dialectics, 1956-63

  1. Notes on PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND (1960)

  2. Rough Notes on SCIENCE OF LOGIC (1961)

  3. Notes on SMALLER (ENCYCLOPEDIA) LOGIC (1961)

  4. Dialogue on the Dialectic

    1. Letter on MARXISM AND FREEDOM, FROM 1776 UNTIL TODAY (1956)

    2. Letters to Herbert Marcuse (1958, 1960, 1961)

    3. Letter to Charles Denby (1960)

    4. Letter to Jonathan Spence (1961)

    5. Letter to Erich Fromm (1963)

Part III

Theory and Practice at a Turning Point, 1964-71

  1. Letter to Herbert Marcuse (1964)

  2. Hegel’s Dialectic and the Freedom Struggles of the 1960s

    1. Lecture in Japan on Hegel (1966)

    2. Presentation to Black/Red Conference (1969)

    3. Logic as Stages of Freedom, Freedom as Stages of Logic (1969)

  3. Toward PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION

    1. Letter on Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy (1968)

    2. Letter on draft of chapter 1 of PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION (1968)

    3. The Newness of our Philosophic-Historic Contribution (1969)

Part IV

After PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION: Hegel’s Absolutes and Marx’s Humanism, 1972-81

  1. Hegel’s Absolute as New Beginning (1974)

  2. Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Fanon and the Dialectics of Liberation Today (1976)

  3. Lukács’ Hegelian Marxism

    1. Letter on Lukács (1972)

    2. Lukács’ Philosophic Dimension (1973)

  4. The Hegel-Marx Relation Revisited

    1. Letter to Harry McShane (1978)

    2. On the 150th Anniversary of Hegel’s Death (1981)

Part V

The Changed World and the Need for Philosophic New Beginnings,1982-87

  1. Marxist-Humanism and the Battle of Ideas

    1. On the Battle of Ideas (1982)

    2. Letter on Karl Korsch (1983)

    3. Marxist-Humanism: The Summation that is a New Beginning (1983)

  2. Forces of Revolt as Reason, Philosophy as Force of Revolt

    1. Not by Practice Alone: The Movement from Theory (1984)

    2. Letter to the Youth on the Creation of New Human Relations (1983)

    3. Dialectics of Revolution and Women’s Liberation (1985)

    4. The Power of Abstraction (1985)

  3. Another Look at Hegel’s PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND

    1. Letter on Hegel’s PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND (1986)

    2. Introduction to “Why Hegel’s PHENOMENOLOGY ? Why Now? (1987)

  4. Reconsidering the Dialectic: Critiquing Lenin...and the Dialectics of Philosophy and Organization

    1. Letter to Louis Dupré (1986)

    2. Letter to George Armstrong Kelly (1986)

    3. Talking to Myself (1987)

    4. On Political Divides and Philosophic New Beginnings (1987)

Appendix

Excerpts from 1949-51 Philosophic Correspondence with C.L.R. James and Grace Lee Boggs — Letters of February 18, February 25, and March 12, 1949, to C.L.R. James

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