Marx's Capital and Hegel's Logic

Fred Moseley is Professor of Economics at Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts, USA). He is the author of The Falling Rate of Profit in the Postwar United States Economy (1992) and editor of Marx’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 the American Economic Review, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, and the Review of Radical Political Economics.Tony Smith is a Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. His books include The Logic of Marx’s Capital: Replies to Hegelian Criticisms (1990), Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production (2000), and Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account (2005).

“The older debates about Marx’s Hegelianism were generally conducted under the sign of idealism and its denunciation; today probably it is vitalism that is the more significant issue. But in the newer Marxian investigations, Hegel’s Logic is grasped as a theoretical anticipation of the complex and dialectical forms taken by capital itself. This is the sense in which, retroactively, Hegel is reread through Marx and not the other way round. As one of these contributors puts it, Hegel becomes an appropriate reference because it is capital itself which is ‘idealistic’. At any rate, this stimulating volume offers a rich sampling of the newer approach and the insights it provides to Marx himself.” – Prof. Fredric Jameson, Duke University

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionFred Moseley and Tony SmithI. IDEALISM AND MATERIALISM1. Hegel, Marx and the Comprehension of CapitalismTony Smith2. Capital Breeds: Interest-Bearing Capital as Purely Abstract FormMark Meaney3. Dialectics on its Feet, or the Form of the Consciousness of the Working Class as Historical SubjectJuan Iñigo Carrera4. Which ‘Rational Kernel’? Which ‘Mystical Shell’? A Contribution to the Debate on the Connection between Hegel’s Logic and Marx’s CapitalGastón Caligaris and Guido StarostaII. HEGEL’S CONCEPT AND MARX’S CAPITAL5. The Universal and the Particulars in Hegel’s Logic and Marx’s CapitalFred Moseley6. On Hegel’s Methodological Legacy in MarxRoberto Fineschi7. Lost in Translation: Once Again on the Marx–Hegel ConnectionRiccardo Bellofiore8. The Secret of Capital’s Self-Valorisation ‘Laid Bare’: How Hegel Helped Marx to Overturn Ricardo’s Theory of ProfitPatrick Murray9. ‘The Circular Course of Our Representation’: ‘Schein’, ‘Grund’ and ‘Erscheinung’ in Marx’s Economic WorksIgor HanzelIII. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE DIALECTIC10. An Outline of the Systematic-Dialectical Method: Scientific and Political SignificanceGeert Reuten11. Marx, Hegel and the Value-FormChristopher J. Arthur12. Dialectics of Labour and Value-Form in Marx’s Capital: A ReconstructionMario L. Robles-BáezReferencesIndex