SPTH 6195C: MARX’S CRITICAL/DIALECTICAL PROCEDURE
BIBLIOGRAPHY, SYLLABUS AND READING LIST (WINTER, 2008)

I. Introduction to the Critique of Modern Western Rationality (Weeks 1, 2)

• H.T. Wilson, Marx’s Critical/Dialectical Procedure (London: Routledge, 1991), vii-xviii, 180-200.
• Peter Wiles, ‘The Necessity and Impossibility of Political Economy’, 11 History and Theory (1972), 3-14.
• Karl Popper, The Poverty of Historicism (N.Y.: Routledge, 1957), vi-x, pp. 1-4 (Historical Note, Preface, Contents, Introduction)
• Frederick Hayek, The Counter-Revolution of Science (Glencoe: Free Press, 1955). Preface, Part 3, 189-206.
  
• Max Horkheimer, ‘Traditional and Critical Theory’ and ‘Postscript’ in Critical Theory (N.Y.: Seabury, 1972), 188-252.
  
• Herbert Marcuse, ‘Philosophy and Critical Theory’ and ‘The Concept of Essence’, in Negations (Boston: Beacon, 1964), 134-158, 43-87.
  
• Theodor Adorno, Negative Dialectics (N.Y.: Seabury, 1973), pp. 1-57.

II. Marx’s Critique of Political Economy as a Problem Posing Framework (Weeks 2, 3)

• H.T. Wilson, Marx’s Critical/Dialectical Procedure, 1-23, 177-179.
  
• Karl Marx, Grundrisse ‘Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy’, translated with a Foreword by Martin Nicolaus (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973), pp. 7-111 (Foreword, Note on Translation, Analytical Contents List, Introduction)
  
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology, in Basic Writings, edited by Lewis Feuer, 246-261.
  
• Friedrich Engels, ‘Socialism: Utopian and Scientific’, in Basic Writings, edited by Lewis Feuer, 68-111.
  
• Karl Marx, ‘Early Texts’, in The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 edited by Dirk Struik (N.Y.: International Publishers, 1964), 5-57.
  
• Karl Marx, Capital. Volume I. (N.Y.: Modern Library, 1906) All Prefaces, Chapter I, Sections 1-4, Chapter II, 7-106
  
• V.S. Vygodski, The Story of a Great Discovery: How Marx Wrote ‘Capital’ (Tunbridge Wells: Abacus, 1974).

III. Conceptualization and Critique in Marx and Today (Weeks 3, 4)

• H.T. Wilson, Marx’s Critical/Dialectical Procedure, 24-45, 177-179.
• Karl Marx, Grundrisse, 100-108.
• Karl Marx, ‘Early Texts’, in op. cit. 132-164.
  
• Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, chapter 2, III
  
• Karel Kosik, Dialectics of the Concrete (Dordrecht: D.Reidel, 1976), 1-35.
  
• Jindrich Zeleny, Logic of Marx (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980), 1-70 and passim.
  
• R. Harre and E.H. Madden, Causal Powers (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1975), chapters 2, 5-7.
  
• Herbert Marcuse, ‘Karl Popper and the Problem of Historical Laws’, in Marcuse, Studies in Critical Philosophy (Boston: Beacon, 1973), 191-209.
  
• David Hillel Ruben, Marxism and Materialism (Sussex: Harvester Press, 1977), II, III
  
• H.T. Wilson, ‘Science, Critique and Criticism: the “Open Society” Revisited’, in John O’Neill (editor) On Critical Theory (N.Y.: Seabury, 1976), 205-230.

IV. The Meaning and Significance of Marx’s Critique of the Method of Political Economy (Weeks 5, 6)

• H.T. Wilson, Marx’s Critical/Dialectical Procedure, 46-68, 177-179.
  
• Karl Marx, Grundrisse, 100-108 and supra. (excerpts)
  
• Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, preface to the 2nd edition, 102-103 and supra. (excerpts)
  
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1965), in Marx and Engels: Basic Writings ed. Lewis Feuer
  
• Karel Kosik, Dialectics of the Concrete, 36-132.
  
• Bertell Ollman, ‘Prolegomenon to a Debate on Marx’s Method’, Social and Sexual Revolution (Boston: South End Press, 1979), 99-123.
  
• Rosalyn Bologh, Dialectical Phenomenology: Marx’s Method (London: Routledge, 1979) (passim) (c.f. Wilson (1991), 215, #60)
  
• Daniel Little, ‘Dialectics and Science in Marx’s Capital, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Volume 17, No. 2 (June 1987), 197-220.
  
• James Farr, ‘Marx, Science and the Dialectical Method’, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Volume 17, No. 2 (June 1987), 221-232.

V. Making Analytical and Practical Sense of Marx’s Critical/Dialectical Procedure (Weeks 7, 8)

• H.T. Wilson, Marx’s Critical/Dialectical Procedure, 69-92, 177-179.
• Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, preface to the 2nd edition, 102-103 and Part I.
  
• Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Chicago: Charles Kerr, 1904), 264-312.
  
• Paul Heyer, Nature, Human Nature and Society. Marx, Darwin, Biology and the Human Sciences (London: Greenwood Press, 1982), 69-162
  
• Derek Sayer, Marx’s Method (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1979), chapters 1-6.
  
• Carol Gould, Marx’s Social Ontology (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1978), 1-39, 69-178.
  
• Karel Kosik, Dialectics of the Concrete, 133-155.
  
• Georg Lukacs, The Ontology of Social Being, 2 Marx (London: Merlin Press, 1978), 1-69.
  
• H.T. Wilson, ‘The Meaning and Significance of “Empirical Method” for the Critical Theory of Society’, 3 Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 3 (Fall 1979).

VI. Ontological Underpinnings of the Critical/Dialectical Procedure (Weeks 9, 10)

• H.T. Wilson, Marx’s Critical/Dialectical Procedure, 93-119, 177-179.
• Karl Marx, Capital, Volumes I and II (excerpts)
  
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Collected Works, Volume I (Marx’s Doctoral Dissertation) (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), 25-105.
  
• Aristotle, De Partibus Animalium, 639b 16-641b29.
  
• Aristotle, De Generatione Animalium, 778a 16-b19.
  
• Aristotle, Metaphysics, 1032a 12-b12, 1033a 24-1034a8, 1013a-1014a25, 1028a10-1030b6, 1045a7-b23, 1040b5-16, 10457-b23, 1048a25-b17, 1032a12-b12, 1033a24-1034a8, 1068b26-1069a14.
  
• Aristotle, De Anima, 418a7-419a15, 424a17-b3.
  
• Aristotle, De Sensu, 449a8-20.
  
• Aristotle, Physics, 251a9-28, b28-252a4.
  
• V.I. Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1970).
  
• Scott Meikle, Essentialism in the Thought of Karl Marx (London: Duckworth, 1985), 1-60.

VII. Retroduction and Empiricism in Marx’s Practice and Theory of Understanding (Weeks 11, 12)

• H.T. Wilson, Marx’s Critical/Dialectical Procedure, 120-146, 177-179.
  
• Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, Part II (Ricardo) (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978).
  
• Aristotle, Posterior Analytics, 87b28-88a2
  
• Aristotle, Metaphysics, 1013a24-1014a25, 1078b12-1080a11.
  
• Norwood R. Hanson, Patterns of Discovery (London: Cambridge, 1958), 1-92
  
• Scott Meikle, ‘Dialectical Contradiction and Necessity’, in Issues in Marxist Philosophy, Volume I (Sussex: Harvester, 1979), 5-35.
  
• David Hillel Ruben, Marxism and Materialism, IV-VI.
  
• V.I. Lenin, ‘Conspectus of Hegel’s The Science of Logic’, in Collected Works, Volume 38 (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961), 103-238.
  
• Galvano Della Volpe, Logic as a Positive Science (London: New Left Books, 1980), 96-106, 141-142 and passim.
  
• Jindrich Zeleny, ‘Paraconsistency and Dialectical Consistency’ <http://nb.vse.cz/kfil/elogos/logpoint/94-1/ZELN.htm>

VIII. Labor as the Objective Basis of Materialist Dialectics (Weeks 13, 14)

• H.T. Wilson, Marx’s Critical/Dialectical Procedure, 147-179.
  
• Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, 128-169.
  
• Karl Marx, Capital, Volume III (excerpts relevant to Bohm-Bawerk’s ‘refutation’)
  
• Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk, Karl Marx and the Close of His System (London: Merlin, 1975, 1897) (including contributions by Sweezy, Hilferding and Bortkiewicz)
  
• Geoffrey Kay, ‘Why Labor is the Starting Point of Capital’, Critique, volume 7 (1977).
  
• Anwar Shaikh, ‘Marx’s Theory of Value and the Transformation Problem’, in Jesse Schwartz (editor) The Subtle Anatomy of Capitalism (N.Y.: Goodyear Publishing, 1977).
  
• David Hillel Ruben, Marxism and Materialism, III-V.
  
• Herbert Marcuse, ‘The Foundation of Historical Materialism’, Studies in Critical Philosophy, 1-48.
  
• Carol Gould, Marx’s Social Ontology, 40-100.
  
• Karel Kosik, Dialectics of the Concrete, 93-155.
  
• Scott Meikle, Essentialism in the Thought of Karl Marx, 61-174.
  
• Georg Lukacs, The Ontology of Social Being, 2 Marx, 69-167.

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