The Hegel Marx Connection

The Hegel Marx Connection

Also by Tony Burns NATURAL LAW AND POLITICAL IDEOLOGY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF HEGEL Also by Ian Fraser HEGEL AND MARX: The Concept of Need

The Hegel Marx Connection Edited by Tony Burns Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Politics Nottingham Trent University and Ian Fraser Lecturer in Political Theory Nottingham Trent University

First published in Great Britain 2000 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-1-349-41246-4 ISBN 978-0-230-59593-4 (ebook) DOI 10.1057/9780230595934 First published in the United States of America 2000 by ST. MARTIN S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-23403-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Hegel Marx Connection / edited by Tony Burns and Ian Fraser. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-23403-4 (cloth) 1. Marx, Karl, 1818 1883 Contributions in political science. 2. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 Contributions in political science. I. Burns, Tony, 1953 II. Fraser, Ian. JC233.M299 H44 2000 320'.01 dc21 Editorial matter, selection and Chapter 1 Tony Burns and Ian Fraser 2000 Chapter 4 Tony Burns 2000 Chapter 7 Ian Fraser 2000 Chapters 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 10 Macmillan Press Ltd 2000 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2000 978-0-333-75136-7 00 023810 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 0LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00

Contents Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors vi vii 1 Introduction: an Historical Survey of the Hegel Marx Connection 1 Ian Fraser and Tony Burns 2 Hegel and Marx: Reflections on the Narrative 34 Terrell Carver 3 Hegel s Legacy 56 Joseph McCarney 4 Marx and Scientific Method: a Non-Metaphysical View 79 Tony Burns 5 From the Critique of Hegel to the Critique of Capital 105 Christopher J. Arthur 6 Marx s Doctoral Dissertation: the Development of a Hegelian Thesis 131 Gary K. Browning 7 Hegel and Marx on Needs: the Making of a Monster 146 Ian Fraser 8 Recognition and Social Relations of Production 167 Andrew Chitty 9 The End of History in Hegel and Marx 198 Howard Williams 10 Hegel and Marx on International Relations 217 David Boucher Bibliography 240 Index 253

Acknowledgements The present volume is the outcome of a conference on the Hegel Marx connection which was organised by the Political Theory Group in the Department of Economics and Politics at Nottingham Trent University in March 1997. All the contributors presented a paper at the conference. In some cases the original presentation has been modified. Chapter 1, by Terrell Carver, also appears as Chapter 9, Philosophy and Politics: Marx s Hegel, in T. Carver, The Postmodern Marx (Manchester: Manchester University Press & Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State Press, 1998). A longer version of Chapter 7, by Andrew Chitty, also appears in Historical Materialism, 2 (1998), pp. 57 97. Chapter 3, by Joseph McCarney, appears in Res Publica, vol. 5, no. 2 (September 1999). Parts of Chapter 9, by Howard Williams, are taken from H. Williams, D. Sullivan and G. Matthews, Francis Fukuyama and the End of History (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997). All these papers are reproduced, in their modified form, by permission of the publishers. The editors would especially like to thank their colleague, Lawrence Wilde, for his advice, support and encouragement, both when organising the conference and afterwards. vi

Notes on the Contributors Christopher J. Arthur taught philosophy for 25 years at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Dialectics of Labour (Blackwell, 1986), and has published editions of Marx s and Engels writings. He recently edited Engels Today: A Centenary Appreciation (Macmillan, 1996) and (with G. Reuten) The Circulation of Capital (Macmillan, 1998). David Boucher is Professorial Fellow in the School of European Studies, Cardiff University. He is the author of Texts in Context: Revisionist Methods for Studying the History of Ideas (Martinus Nijhof, 1985), The Social and Political Thought of R. G. Collingwood (Cambridge, 1994). A Radical Hegelian: the Political and Social Philosophy of Henry Jones (University of Wales Press, 1993), and Political Theories of International Relations: From Thucydides to the Present (Oxford University Press, 1998). He has edited The British Idealists for the Cambridge University Press and is currently working on the relationship between communitarianism and British Idealism. Gary K. Browning was appointed Professor of Politics at Oxford Brookes University in 1997. He is co-editor of the journal, Politics. His books include Plato and Hegel: Two Modes of Philosophising About Politics (Garland, 1991), Politics: An Introduction (co-author) (Routledge, 1997), Hegel s Phenomenology of Spirit (editor.) (Kluwer, 1998), and Hegel and the History of Political Philosophy (Macmillan, 1999). Tony Burns is a senior lecturer in philosophy and politics at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of Natural Law and Political Ideology in the Philosophy of Hegel (Avebury Press, 1996). He has contributed to a number of academic journals, including the Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, History of Political Thought, Contemporary Politics, Politics, Sociological Review, the British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies and Diderot Studies. He is currently writing a book on The Aristotelian Natural Law Tradition, to be published by Ashgate Press. Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol. He has written extensively on Marx and Engels, including Engels in the Oxford Past Masters series (1981) and Marx for the Cambridge Companions to Philosophy (1991). He is author of Marx and Engels: vii

viii Notes on the Contributors The Intellectual Relationship (Harvester Press, 1983), Friedrich Engels: His Life and Thought (Macmillan, 1989), and The Postmodern Marx. He has recently completed new translations in Marx: Later Political Writings (1996) for the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, and three of his own books have been translated into Japanese. Andrew Chitty teaches philosophy at the University of Sussex. He is co-editor of Has History Ended? Fukuyama, Marx, Modernity (Avebury Press, 1994), and has published articles on Hegel and Marx. He is currently working on a book on the ontological basis of Marx s social thought, with particular reference to the ideas of nature and human being. Ian Fraser is a lecturer in political theory at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of Hegel and Marx: The Concept of Need (Edinburgh University Press, 1998). He has published a number of articles on Hegel and Marx in a variety of academic journals, including Capital & Class, Politics, European Legacy and Studies in Marxism. Joseph McCarney teaches philosophy at South Bank University. He is the author of The Real World of Ideology (Harvester Press, 1980), Social Theory and the Crisis of Marxism (Verso, 1990) and various articles on Hegel and Marx. Howard Williams is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Heidelberg, Mainz, Munich, Frankfurt, Wilfrid Laurier, Waterloo, Canada and at the Czech and Slovak Academies of Science. His publications include Essays on Kant s Political Philosophy (University of Wales Press, 1983); Hegel, Heraclitus and Marx s Dialectic (Harvester Press, 1988); International Relations and the Limits of Political Theory (Macmillan, 1996); and (with D. Sullivan and G. Matthews) Francis Fukuyama and the End of History (University of Wales Press, 1998).