C. L. R. James's "Notes on dialectics" left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism?

"John H. McClendon III's C.L.R. James's Notes on Dialectics : Left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism? is the first-ever book devoted exclusively to James's magnum opus, Notes on Dialectics: Hegal-Marx-Lenin. McClendon provides a thorough critique of James's exploration into th...

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1. Verfasser: McClendon, John H. 1949- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lanham [u.a.] Lexington Books 2005
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Reminiscences of the James legacy
  • Political context and philosophical locus
  • James on understanding and reason: Kant, Hegel, and German idealism
  • Hegel's idealism : Marxist materialist
  • Reading and inversion
  • James's locus as Marxist philosopher : the humanist/anti-humanist debate
  • Comparing notes : James and Lenin on Hegel and dialectical materialism
  • Lenin's theory of the Vanguard party : contra James's self-activity of the proletariat
  • Postscript : beyond the boundary of the Johnson-Forest tendency.