The Myth of Dialectics

Download or read book The Myth of Dialectics written by J. Rosenthal and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-02-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a century now Marxists have been searching for a 'rational kernel' of Hegelian 'dialectics' inside the 'mystical shell' of the Hegelian system. As against this entire tradition, Rosenthal insists that Hegelian philosophy is mysticism all the way through. He argues that Marx's supposed `dialectic method' is simply a myth propagated by academics and proposes the provocative thesis that it is not, after all, Hegel's 'method' of which Marx made use in Capital but rather precisely Hegel's mysticism. The role of money in Marx and Hegel is examined in detail.