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Author Anderson, Kevin B

Title Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism A Critical Study
Published Boston : BRILL, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (384 p.)
Series Historical Materialism Book Ser
Historical Materialism Book Ser
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Sources and Abbreviations -- Lenin and the Dialectics of Revolution: Introduction to the New Edition -- 1. Lenin in the Present Moment -- 2. Lenin and Hegel Today -- 3. Lenin and Hegel 1914-22, Some Key Examples -- 4. Lenin and the Hegelian Marxist Tradition -- 5. Was Lenin Really a Hegelian Marxist after 1914? -- 6. Dialectics and Lenin's Theoretical Works after 1914: Did He Really Reorganise His Thinking? -- 7. The Antinomies of State and Revolution -- 8. Which, If Any, Lenin for Today? -- 9. References
Introduction to the First Edition -- Part 1. Lenin on Hegel and Dialectics -- Chapter 1. The Crisis of World Marxism in 1914 and Lenin's Plunge into Hegel -- 1. The Significance of the Turn to Hegel -- 2. Marxism and Hegel before 1914 -- 3. Lenin and Hegel before 1914 -- 4. The 1914 Encyclopedia Article 'Karl Marx' -- Chapter 2. Lenin on Hegel's Concepts of Being and Essence -- 1. Lenin Begins to Read Hegel -- 2. On 'The Doctrine of Being' -- 3. On 'The Doctrine of Essence' -- Chapter 3. The Subjective Logic: The Core of Lenin's 1914 Hegel Studies
1. The Notion in General: The 'Self-Conscious Subject' -- 2. The Syllogism and the Relation of Hegel to Marxism -- 3. Teleology: Lenin Discovers a Concept of Practice and Labor in Hegel -- 4. The Idea in General: 'The Very Best Exposition of Dialectics' -- 5. The Idea of Life: A 'Brilliant' Addition to the Logic -- 6. The Idea of Cognition: A Turning Point in Lenin's Abstract -- 7. The Absolute Idea: The Ambivalent Climax of Lenin's Reading of Hegel -- Chapter 4. Lenin's Discussions of the Dialectic, 1915-23: An Ambivalent, Secretive Hegelianism
1. Interlude: Writings on the War and Revolutionary Defeatism, 1914-15 -- 2. Notes on Other Works by Hegel, 1915: Intelligent Idealism versus Vulgar Materialism -- 3. 'On the Question of Dialectics': Lenin Critiques Engels -- 4. Lenin's Public Writings on Dialectics, 1915-23: Hegelian Marxism and Philosophical Ambivalence -- Part 2. Lenin on the Dialectics of Revolution, 1914-23 -- Chapter 5. Imperialism and New Forms of Subjectivity: National Liberation Movements -- 1. Economics and Dialectics in the Analysis of Imperialism -- 2. Notebooks on Imperialism
3. Marxism and the National Question to 1914 -- 4. Lenin on the Dialectics of National Liberation, 1916-17 -- 5. Continuation of the Debates over National Liberation after the Revolution -- Chapter 6. State and Revolution: Subjectivity, Grassroots Democracy, and the Critique of Bureaucracy -- 1. State and Revolution -- 2. The New Vision of Revolution: Letters, Speeches, and Pamphlets, 1917-18 -- 3. An Ambivalent Critique of Bureaucracy, 1919-23 -- Part 3. Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism -- Chapter 7. From the 1920s to 1953: Lukács, Lefebvre, and the Johnson-Forest Tendency
Notes Description based upon print version of record
1. Lenin and Hegel in the Soviet Union in the 1920s
Subject Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Communism.
Philosophy, Marxist.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004471610
9004471618