This book provides close readings of primary texts to analyze the linkage between G.W.F.
Hegel's philosophy and Karl Marx's critical social theory of necessity and freedom. This is
important for three reasons: first to understand the significance of the changing
relationships of work society and critical social theory in the origins of Hegelian-Marxism
in the US as documented in the recently published correspondence between the Marxist-Humanist
theoretician Raya Dunayevskaya and the critical theorist Herbert Marcuse second to identify
the intersections of the Critical Theorists Jurgen Habermas' and Marcuse's influential
reinterpretations of Marx's value theory of economy and society that enables navigation of the
changing relationships of the social and economic spheres in the last century as developed in
Marx's Grundrisse and thirdly to assess the potential of Moishe Postone's renewal of Marx's
value theory largely conceived by the notion of a necessity and freedom dialectic intrinsic to
capitalism.
