CHRISTOPHER J. ARTHUR Former Lecturer in PhilosophyJOHN R. BELL School of Liberal Studies, Seneca College, Toronto, CanadaSTEFANOS KOURKOULAKOS ResearcherDAVID MCNALLY Professor of Political Science, York University, Toronto, CanadaPATRICK MURRAY Professor of Philosophy, Creighton University, Omaha, NebraskaBERTELL OLLMAN Professor of Politics, New York UniversityMOISHE POSTONEAssociate Professor, University of ChicagoGEERT REUTEN Associate Professor of Economics, University of AmsterdamTHOMAS T. SEKINE Professor of Economics, School of Commerce, Aichi-Gakuin University, JapanTONY SMITH Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Iowa State University

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction Beyond the Bad Infinity of Capital: On Marx's Dialectics of Freedom; D.McNally Systematic and Historical Dialectics: Toward a Marxian Theory of Globalization; T.Smith On 'Becoming Necessary' in an Organic Systematic Dialectic: The Case of Creeping Inflation; G.Reuten Superseding Lukacs: Towards a Contribution to the Theory of Subjectivity; R.Albritton Lukacs and the Dialectical Critique of Capitalism; M.Postone From Hegel to Marx to the Dialectic of Capital; J.R.Bell The Dialectic, of Logic that Coincides with Economics; T.T.Sekine The Problem of Use Value for a Dialectic of Capital; C.J.Arthur Things Fall Apart: Historical and Systematic Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy; P.Murray Marx's Dialectical Method is More than a Mode of Exposition: A Critique of Systematic Dialectics; B.Ollman The Specificity of Dialectical Reason (for Hegel); S.Kourkoulakos Index