Many hold that the transition from Hegel's materialism to Marx's materialism signifies a progressive development from an abstract-idealist theory-of-becoming, to a theory of the concrete actions of humans within history. A Failed Parricide offers an innovative reading of this transition, arguing that Marx remained structurally subaltern to Hegel's conception of the subject that becomes itself in relation to alterity

Many hold that the transition from Hegel's materialism to Marx's materialism signifies a progressive development from an abstract-idealist theory-of-becoming, to a theory of the concrete actions of humans within history. A Failed Parricide offers an innovative reading of this transition, arguing that Marx remained structurally subaltern to Hegel's conception of the subject that becomes itself in relation to alterity