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NEWS & LETTERS, January-February 2003

New from Lexington Press! 30th Anniversary Edition of

PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION, FROM HEGEL TO SARTRE AND FROM MARX TO MAO

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Special offer $20 (plus $4 postage)

After March 2003, $24.95

“There are few better guides to grasping Marx's philosophy and his theory of revolution (and the internal relation between the two) than Raya Dunayevskaya. And when one adds the impressive insights on how to apply both in the present period, it is evident that this is a work that no serious radical--scholar or layman/ woman--can afford to miss.”

--Bertell Ollman, New York University

“For everyone who is seriously interested in the forces which form and deform the present and the future, this book is to be most warmly recommended.”

--Erich Fromm, from the Foreword to the German edition

Lukács and Korsch had proposed a similar, Hegelian reading. Yet a notable difference separates Dunayevskaya from these earlier positions. Their interpretation had limited the revolutionary impact of Hegel's thought to the socio-political order. Dunayevskaya aims at a total liberation of the human person . . . . She assumes within her theory of class struggle issues as diverse as feminism [and] Black liberation. . . 

--Louis Dupré, Yale University

Dunayevskaya . . . has discovered a concept of freedom in Hegel that engages us to see freedom as a self-determination that is a free release rather than a movement of becoming other. . . . Should feminists bother with Hegel? Dunayevskaya's voice returns us to an affirmative response. While Hegel used his own analysis to affirm the subordination of women, there is still much in his analysis of the pathway to freedom, especially in the Logic, that is not exclusively male but which helps us to reflect on a truly human freedom.

--Patricia Altenbernd Johnson, University of Dayton

Contents...

Part I  Why Hegel? Why Now?

  1. Absolute Negativity as New Beginning

  2. A New Continent of Thought: Marx's Historical Materialism and Its Inseparability from the Hegelian Dialetic

  3. The Shock of Recognition and the Philosophic Ambivalence of Lenin

Part II  Alternatives

Introduction. On the Eve of World War II: Depression in the Economy and in Thought

  1. Leon Trotsky as Theoretician

  2. The Thought of Mao Tse-tung

  3. Jean-Paul Sartre: Outsider Looking In

Part III  Economic Reality and the Dialectics of Liberation

  1. The African Revolutions and the World Economy

  2. State Capitalism and the East European Revolts

  3. New Passions and New Forces: The Black Dimension, the Anti-Vietnam War Youth, Rank-and-File Labor, Women's Liberation

$24.95. Paper 0-7391-0559-0. April 2003. 416 pp.

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