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The ‘Subject-Predicate Reversal’: an Excursus on Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s Doctrine of the State

In: The Myth of Dialectics

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  • John Rosenthal

    (Colorado College)

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The bulk of Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s Doctrine of the State is devoted to the task of exposing the mystification suffered by an otherwise mundane subject-matter through Hegel’s ‘logicizing’ treatment of it. The mechanism of such mystification, as Marx shows in his painstakingly detailed paragraph-by-paragaph commentary, consists in the distinctively Hegelian procedure of ‘explaining’ empirical objects or circumstances as attributes of concepts which they allegedly serve to ‘realize’. (A table of contents which Marx appended to the manuscript, but left uncompleted, contains the single entry: ‘Concerning Hegel’s Transition and Explication’ [CHDS, 198/333].) This is not as simple a matter as might be supposed at first glance, since, as we have seen, every determinate concept is in Hegel’s treatment presented as but a stage in the concretization of ‘the concept’, and ‘the concept’, as we know, is itself articulated into three functional ‘moments’.

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  • John Rosenthal, 1998. "The ‘Subject-Predicate Reversal’: an Excursus on Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s Doctrine of the State," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Myth of Dialectics, chapter 12, pages 149-156, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37184-2_12
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230371842_12
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