Hegel, Marx, and the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic

This book provides close readings of primary texts to analyze the linkage between G.W.F. Hegels philosophy and Karl Marxs critical social theory of necessity and freedom. This is important for three reasons: first, to understand the significance of the changing relationships of work, society, and critical social theory in the origins of Hegelian-Marxism in the US, as documented in the recently published correspondence between the Marxist-Humanist theoretician Raya Dunayevskaya and the critical theorist Herbert Marcuse; second, to identify the intersections of the Critical Theorists Jurgen Habermas and Marcuses influential reinterpretations of Marxs value theory of economy and society that enables navigation of the changing relationships of the social and economic spheres in the last century, as developed in Marxs Grundrisse; and, thirdly, to assess the potential of Moishe Postones renewal of Marxs value theory, largely conceived by the notion of a necessity andfreedom dialectic intrinsic to capitalism.