Hegel, Marx, and the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic

Russell Rockwell has taught Sociology at Fordham University, US, and St. John’s University, US, and has published journal articles on Critical Theory and Marxist Humanism. He is also co-editor (with Kevin B. Anderson) of The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx, and Critical Theory (2012).

• 1. Necessity and Freedom in the Origins of Hegelian-Marxism in the United States.- 2. Inside the Development of Marxist-Humanism and Critical Theory: The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse Correspondence.- 3. Hegel in Herbert Marcuse's Hegelian-Marxism, Critical Theory and Value Theory.- 4. Marx in Herbert Marcuse's Hegelian Marxism, Critical Theory, and Value Theory.- 5. Changes in Critical Theory Interpretations of Marx's Value Theory.- 6. Historical Configurations of Necessity and Freedom: The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse Correspondence, Automated Production, and the Question of Post-Capitalist Society.- 7. Moishe Postone's Deepened Interpretation of Marx's Value Theory: Grundrisse.- 8. Moishe Postone’s deepened interpretation Of Marx’s value theory: Capital.- 8. Conclusion: New Forms of the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic.

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