Studies on Marx and Hegel

Studies on Marx and Hegel
Cover of the first edition
Author Jean Hyppolite
Original title Études sur Marx et Hegel
Translator John O'Neill
Country France
Language French
Subjects Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Karl Marx
Publisher Marcel Rivière et Cie, Heinemann Educational Books Ltd
Publication date
 1955
Published in English
 1969
Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages 202 (1969 English edition)
ISBN 978-0061317668

Studies on Marx and Hegel (French: Études sur Marx et Hegel) is a 1955 book about Karl Marx and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel by the French philosopher Jean Hyppolite. It has received praise from commentators, and has been credited with showing Hegel's anticipation of existentialism.

Summary

Hyppolite provides assessments of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), including the significance of Hegel's discussion in that work of the French Revolution. He also assesses Hegel's Science of Logic, Marx's Das Kapital (1867–1883), and Marx's critique of Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820), and discusses György Lukács's The Young Hegel (1938).[1]

Publication history

Studies on Marx and Hegel was published by Marcel Rivière et Cie in 1955. In 1969, an English translation by John O'Neill was published by Heinemann Educational Books Ltd.[2]

Reception

Academic journals

Studies on Marx and Hegel received a positive review from Michael Faia in American Sociological Review.[3] The book was also reviewed by the political scientist David McLellan in Sociology.[4]

Faia credited Hyppolite with helping to clarify Hegel's philosophy, and with showing Marx's indebtedness to Charles Darwin. He also maintained that Hyppolite showed Hegel's anticipation of the ideas of existentialism.[3]

Evaluations in books

The philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, writing in Search for a Method (1957), considered Hyppolite at least partially successful in his attempt to reinterpret Hegel as an existentialist.[5] Sartre cited Studies on Marx and Hegel in Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960).[6] The historian Peter Gay, writing in the second volume of The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud (1986), described Studies on Marx and Hegel as one of the best discussions of alienation in the literature on Marx and Hegel.[7]

McLellan, writing in the 1995 edition of his Karl Marx: His Life and Thought, called Studies on Marx and Hegel profound.[8]

References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Hyppolite 1969, pp. 3, 35–69, 70, 94, 169, 126–130.
  2. ↑ O'Neill 1969, p. iii.
  3. 1 2 Faia 1970, pp. 767–768.
  4. ↑ McLellan 1972, p. 140.
  5. ↑ Sartre 1968, p. 9.
  6. ↑ Sartre 1991, p. 308.
  7. ↑ Gay 1986, p. 458.
  8. ↑ McLellan 1995, p. 442.

Bibliography

Books

  • Gay, Peter (1986). The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud. Volume II: The Tender Passion. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-503741-3.
  • Hyppolite, Jean (1969). Studies on Marx and Hegel. London: Heinemann.
  • McLellan, David (1995). Karl Marx: A Biography. London: Papermac. ISBN 0-333-63947-2.
  • O'Neill, John; Hyppolite, Jean (1969). Studies on Marx and Hegel. London: Heinemann Educational Ltd.
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul (1991). Critique of Dialectical Reason. London: Verso Books. ISBN 0-86091-757-6.
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul (1968). Search for a Method. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-394-70464-9.
Journals

  • Faia, Michael (1970). "Studies on Marx and Hegel (Book)". American Sociological Review. 35 (4).  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • McLellan, David (1972). "Studies on Marx and Hegel". Sociology. 6 (1).  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
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