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Self-Related Negativity and Dialectic of Sensory Praxis

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2021, (36), pp.25~58
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2021..36.002
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : May 16, 2021
  • Accepted : June 30, 2021
  • Published : June 30, 2021

kim Hyun 1 Song-yi Baek 1

1전남대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to distinguish Marx's materialistic dialectic from Hegel's speculative dialectic and to show its characteristics in relation to Hegel's. Considering the well-known understanding of their different perspectives, namely, materialism and idealism, it provides an explanation that Hegel's dialectic can be formulated as speculative on the basis of self-related negativity(Negativität) whereas Marx's dialectic as materialistic established on the sensory practice of 'real, active men'. This also leads to the difference of the concept of negation in both ways. Based on Marx's Economic Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, in which his critical study on german speculative dialectic appears in the most concrete way, this paper discuss the significance of the concept of negation as follows: 1. The comparison presents that Marx developed Hegel’s concept of negativity in radical way from a materialistic perspective and points out to which extent Marx successes the dialectical method of Hegel and where he stops depending on german idealistic tradition. 2. In dialectic, Marx sees the capacity of negation for scientific analysis and criticism in order to seek the possibility of the internal dissolution of the existing capitalistic system. Despite the potential of dialectic it self, the hegelian method is equivalent to bourgeois economic theories in terms of blindly approving capitalistic premises.

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