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Out Soon from Lexington Books: Philosophy and Revolution: From Hegel to Sartre, and from Marx to Mao By <A HREF="http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/MultiBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/AU.db&eqAuFNamedatarq=Raya&eqAuLNamedatarq=Dunayevskaya&max=10&startat=1">Raya Dunayevskaya </A> (click to enlarge) $24.95 Paper 0-7391-0559-0 April 28, 2003 416pp Few thought systems have been as distorted and sometimes misconstrued as those of Marx and Hegel. Philosophy and Revolution, presented here in a new edition, attempts to save Marx from interpretations which restrict the revolutionary significance of the philosophy behind his theory. Developing her breakthrough on Hegel's Absolute Idea, Raya Dunayevskaya, who died in the June of 1987, aims at a total liberation of the human person--not only from the ills of a capitalist society, but also from the equally oppressive state capitalism of established communist governments. She assumes within her theory of class struggle issues as diverse as feminism, black liberation, and even the new nationalism of third world countries. Moreover, Dunayevskaya combines within herself an incorruptible objectivity with a passionate political attitude, making this work a vibrant and concrete discussion of the vicissitudes of society, justice, equality, and existence. > Lukacs and Korsch had proposed a similar, Hegelian reading. Yet a notable > difference separates Dunayevskaya from these earlier positions. Their > interpretation had limited the revolutionary impact of hegel's thought to > the socio-political order. Dunayevskaya aims at a total liberation of the > human person . . . . She assumes within her theory of class struggle issues > as diverse as feminism [and] black liberation. . . . —Louis Dupre, Yale > University > Dunayevskaya . . . has discovered a concept of freedom in Hegel that engages > us to see freedom as a self-determination that is a free release rather > than a movement of becoming other. . . . Should feminists bother with > Hegel? Dunayevskaya's voice returns us to an affirmative response. While > Hegel used his own analysis to affirm the subordination of women, there is > still much in his analysis of the pathway to freedom, especially in the > Logic, that is not exclusively male but which helps us to reflect on a > truly human freedom. —Patricia Altenbernd Johnson, University of Dayton > For everyone who is seriously interested in the forces which form and deform > the present and the future, this book is to be most warmly recommended. — > Erich Fromm, from the Foeword to the German Edition > There a few better guides to grasping Marx's philosophy and his theory of > revolution (and the internal relation between the two) than Raya > Dunayevskaya. And when one adds the impressive insights on how to apply > both in the present period, it is evident tha tthis is a work that no > serious radical scholar or layman/woman can afford to miss. —Bertell > Ollman, New York University