Marx's Capital and Hegel's Logic ─ A Reexamination

This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth reappraisal of the relation between Marx’s economic theory in Capital and Hegel’s Logic by leading Marxian economists and philosophers from around the world. The subjects dealt with include: systematic dialectics, the New Dialectics, materialism vs. idealism, Marx’s inversion’ of Hegel, Hegel’s Concept logic (universality-particularity-singularity), Hegel’s Essence logic (essence-appearance), Marx’s levels of abstraction of capital in general and competition, and capital as Hegelian Subject.

Originally presented at the 22nd annual meeting of the International Symposium on Marxian Theory in August 2011, the papers in this volume feature contributions from economists and philosophers.

Contributors include Chris Arthur, Riccardo Bellofiore, Roberto Fineschi, Gaston Caligaris, Igor Hanzel, Juan Inigo Carrera, Mark Meaney, Fred Moseley, Patrick Murray, Geert Reuten, Mario Robles, Tony Smith, and Guido Starosta

Fred Moseley is Professor of Economics at Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts, USA). He is the author ofThe Falling Rate of Profit in the Postwar United States Economy (1992) and editor ofMarx’s Logical Method: A Reappraisal (1993), New Investigations of Marx’s Method (1997),Heterodox Economic Theories: True or False? (1995), and Marx’s Theory of Money: Modern Reappraisals. He has also published numerous articles on Marxian economics in scholarly journals, including theAmerican Economic Review, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, and theReview of Radical Political Economics.

Tony Smith: is a Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. His books includeThe Logic of Marx’s Capital: Replies to Hegelian Criticisms (1990), Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production (2000), andGlobalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account (2005)