Author: Smith, Tony

Source: Historical Materialism, Volume 4, Number 1, 1999 , pp. 215-240(26)

Publisher: BRILL

Abstract:

In his recent work, The Myth of Dialectics, John Rosenthal has presented a forceful critique of Hegel and of Marxists sympathetic to the Hegelian legacy,' With well over a quarter of the world's population mired in a global depression, one might think that now is not the time for radical philosophers to indulge in arcane debates about the relevance of Hegelian dialectics. Nonetheless, I shall attempt to present a reading of Hegel that is both more charitable and, I believe, more accurate than Rosenthal's. At the conclusion of the paper I shall suggest that this controversy is not entirely irrelevant to the concerns of contemporary radical social theorists.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/NO_DOI

Publication date: 1999-01-01

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