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From Marx to Hegel and Back
Capitalism, Critique, and Utopia
Edited by Victoria Fareld and Hannes Kuch
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Contents
Contributors vi
Acknowledgments ix
1 From Marx to Hegel and Back: Toward a Helical Approach
Victoria Fareld and Hannes Kuch 1
Part 1 Reassessing the Legacy of Hegel and Marx
2 Hegel and Marx: A Reassessment after One Century Axel Honneth 37
3 Hegel, Marx, and Presentism Emmanuel Renault 55
4 Property and Freedom in Kant, Hegel, and Marx Jacob Blumenfeld 73
5 I, the Revolution, Speak: Lenin’s Speculative (Hegelian) Style Frank Ruda 91
Part 2 Capitalism and Critique
6 Critique in Hegel and Marx Rocío Zambrana 109
7 Hegel and Marx on ‘Spiritual Life’ as a Criterion for Social
Critique Frederick Neuhouser 125
8 Abstract Labor and Recognition Sven Ellmers 141
9 Love Will Tear Us Apart: Marx and Hegel on the Materiality of Erotic
Bonds Federica Gregoratto 161
Part 3 Postcapitalism and Utopia
10 Marx’s ‘Hegelian’ Critique of Utopia David Leopold 179
11 Where Are We Developing the Requirements for a New Society?
The Dialectic of Today’s Capitalism from a Hegelian-Marxist
Perspective Eva Bockenheimer 197
12 Social Freedom beyond Capitalism: Three Alternatives Hannes Kuch 213
13 Honneth’s Democratic Sittlichkeit and Market Socialism Michael Nance 235
Index 253
Contributors
Jacob Blumenfeld earned his PhD in 2018 from the New School for Social Research,
with a dissertation on the concept of property in German Idealism. He edited and
contributed to The Anarchist Turn (Pluto Press, 2013), co-translated Communism for
Kids (MIT Press, 2017), and recently published All Things Are Nothing to Me (Zero
Books, 2018). His popular writings have appeared in the New York Times, Viewpoint
Magazine, and the Brooklyn Rail. His academic writings have appeared in the Hegel
Bulletin, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Historical Materialism, and
more. He lives in Berlin.
Eva Bockenheimer holds a doctoral degree from the Ruhr University Bochum. Her
thesis examined the conception of gender and the family in Hegel’s thought. Her research
interests include the philosophy of Hegel, Marx, and Marxism; concepts of sex, gender,
and the family; and theories on the future of work and social transformation. She works
as a lecturer in educational institutions of several German trade unions and is currently
writing an Introduction to Dialectics. Her publications include Hegels Familien- und
Geschlechtertheorie (2013), Work Hard Play Hard (editor, 2014), and the article “Hegel
and Marx on Family and Gender-Relations” (forthcoming, Hegel Bulletin).
Sven Ellmers is Assistant Professor at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.
His research interests include German Idealism and Marx, morality of markets, and
normative foundations of critical social theory. Among his publications are Freiheit
und Wirtschaft. Theorie der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft nach Hegel (Transcript 2015);
Korporation und Sittlichkeit. Zur Aktualität von Hegels Theorie der bürgerlichen
Gesellschaft, co-edited with Steffen Herrmann (Fink, 2017); Sven Ellmers, “‘Der
Narzissmus wird gesellschaftsfähig.’ Subjektivierungspraktiken der Marktwirtschaft”
(Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 44, no. 1, 2019).
Victoria Fareld is Associate Professor of Intellectual History at Stockholm University.
She earned her PhD in 2007 with a work on recognition, vulnerability, and exposure
in contemporary political philosophy in light of Hegel’s philosophy and German
Idealism. Her current research focuses on time, ethics, memory, and historical justice.
Among her recent publications are "Coming to Terms with the Present: Exploring the
Chrononormativity of Historical Time”, Rethinking Historical Time: New Approaches to
Presentism (Bloomsbury 2019),” History, Justice and the Time of the Imprescriptible”,
The Ethos of History (Berghahn Books 2018); “(In) Between the Living and the Dead:
New Perspectives on Time in History”, History Compass 14, no. 9, 2016; "Ressentiment
as Moral Imperative: Jean Améry’s Nietzschean Revaluation of Victim Morality”, Re-
Thinking Ressentiment (Transcript 2016).
Contributors vii
Federica Gregoratto is a lecturer in social and political philosophy at the University
of St. Gallen (Switzerland). She has published on the philosophy of love and sex,
critical theory (especially Habermas and Adorno), pragmatism (especially Dewey and
Addams), recognition and power theories, debt-guilt debates, and feminism. She is
working on a book on erotic love as a social space of power, freedom, and transformation.
Among her most recent publications connected to this project are: “The Ambiguity
of Love. Beauvoir, Honneth and Arendt on the Relation between Recognition, Power
and Violence” (Critical Horizons, 2018), and “Love Is a Losing Game: Power and
Exploitation in Romantic Relationships” (The Journal of Political Power, 2017).
Axel Honneth is Jack C. Weinstein Professor for the Humanities in the Department
of Philosophy at Columbia University. He was Director of the Institute for Social
Research, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, and Professor of Social Philosophy, Goethe-
Universität Frankfurt. His research interests include social philosophy and the logic
of social sciences; the theory of recognition; Critical Theory. Among his publications
are The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel’s Social Theory (Princeton University
Press, 2010); Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life (Polity, 2014);
The Idea of Socialism: Towards a Renewal (Polity, 2017).
Hannes Kuch leads the research project “Economy and Social Freedom” at the
Department of Philosophy, Goethe-University Frankfurt. His research interests include
social and political philosophy, with a focus on nineteenth-century philosophy, the
philosophy of the market, and social aspects of the philosophy of language. Among his
publications are Humiliation, Degradation, Dehumanization: Human Dignity Violated
(as a co-editor; Springer, 2010); “Real Utopias, Reciprocity, and Concern for Others”
(Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2016); “The Market, Competition, and Structural
Exploitation” (Constellations, forthcoming).
David Leopold is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford,
and is also the John Milton Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford. He has written widely
on aspects of socialism, methods in political theory, and utopianism. He has produced
scholarly editions of Max Stirner’s The Ego and Its Own (Cambridge University Press,
2000), of William Morris’s News From Nowhere (Oxford University Press, 2003), and is
the author of The Young Karl Marx: German Philosophy, the Modern State, and Human
Flourishing (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Michael Nance is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County, and Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Goethe-
Universität, Frankfurt. His research focuses on social, political, and legal philosophy in
Kant and post-Kantian Idealism. Recent publications include “Property and Economic
Planning in Fichte’s Contractualism”, European Journal of Philosophy, 2019; “Freedom,
Coercion, and the Relation of Right”, in Fichte’s Foundations of Natural Right: A
Critical Guide, ed. Gabriel Gottlieb (Cambridge University Press, 2016); and “Hegel’s
Jena Practical Philosophy”, in The Oxford Handbook of Hegel, ed. Dean Moyar (Oxford
University Press, 2017).
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Frederick Neuhouser is Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia
University (New York), specializing in German Idealism and social and political
philosophy. He is the author of four books: Rousseau’s Critique of Inequality (Cambridge
University Press, 2014), Rousseau’s Theodicy of Self-Love (Oxford University Press,
2008), Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory (Harvard University Press, 2000), and
Fichte’s Theory of Subjectivity (Cambridge University Press, 1990). Much of his recent
work has focused on the topics of recognition and amour-propre, but he is currently
working on a project on social ontology and social pathology in nineteenth- and
twentieth-century thought.
Emmanuel Renault is Professor of Philosophy in Paris Nanterre University. He has
published mainly on Hegel, Marx, and on past and present critical theory. His books
written or translated in English are: Social Suffering (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), Marx
and Critical Theory (Brill, 2018), The Return of Work in Critical Theory (Columbia
University Press, 2018), and The Experience of Injustice (Columbia University Press,
2019).
Frank Ruda is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee. His last
publications include: The Dash – The Other Side of Absolute Knowing (with Rebecca
Comay, MIT Press, 2018); Reading Marx (with Agon Hamza and Slavoj Žižek, Polity
Press, 2018), and Gegen-Freiheit: Fatalismus und Komik (Konstanz University Press,
2018).
Rocío Zambrana is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Emory. She is the author of
Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (under contract, Duke University Press) and
Hegel’s Theory of Intelligibility (The University of Chicago Press, 2015), in addition to
articles, book chapters, and columns on various themes. Her current work examines
critiques of capitalism and coloniality in multiple philosophical traditions, especially
Marxism, Decolonial Thought, and Feminisms of the Américas (Latinx, Latin
American, Caribbean). She considers the manifestations of coloniality in a colonial
context by examining fiscally distressed Puerto Rico. Zambrana is also Co-Editor, with
Bonnie Mann, Erin McKenna, and Camisha Russell, of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist
Philosophy, and columnist for 80grados (San Juan, Puerto Rico).
Acknowledgments
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Axel Honneth’s “Hegel and Marx: A Reassessment after One Century,” from
Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser, ed. Banu Bargu
and Chiara Bottici, published 2017 by Palgrave Macmillan, is reproduced with
permission of SNCSC.
Sven Ellmers’s “Abstract Labor and Recognition” is a slightly modified translation
of “Abstrakte Arbeit und Anerkennung,” published in Zeitschrift für Praktische
Philosophie 4, no. 1, 2017: 81–108, under a CC-BY 4.0 licence, https://www.praktische-
philosophie.org/ellmers-2017.html.
