Scientific method

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2011b). La dialéctica sobre sus pies, o la forma de la conciencia de la clase obrera como sujeto histórico [Dialectics on Its Feet, or the Form of the Consciousness of the Working Class as Historical Subject]. Documento de Investigación del Centro para la Investigación como Crítica Práctica, Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT The paper argues that the need to place dialectics on its feet is not a matter of adapting Hegel’s logic to a materialist point of view, but is instead the necessity of transcending the historical character of logic itself. It starts by considering that Marx recognises consciousness as the way in which human subjects … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2012a). Acerca del carácter de la relación base económica – superestructura política y jurídica: la oposición entre la representación lógica y la reproducción dialéctica [On the nature of the relation between the economic base and political and legal superstructure: the opposition between the logical representation and the dialectical reproduction]. En G. Caligaris & A. Fitzsimons (Eds.), Relaciones económicas y políticas. Aportes para el estudio de su unidad con base en la obra de Karl Marx (pp. 8–19). Buenos Aires: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT La  teoría marxista enfrenta la síntesis hecha por Marx de la relación entre la  base económica y la superestructura jurídica y política como un “texto a interpretar”. Recurre, entonces,  a la representación lógica, concibiendo a la base y la superestructura como dos  existencias que deben ponerse en relación exterior. Existen tres concepciones dominantes al … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2013a). Method: from the Grundrisse to Capital. En R. Bellofiore, G. Starosta, & P. D. Thomas (Eds.), In Marx’s Laboratory. Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse (pp. 43–70). Leiden: Brill.

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ABSTRACT Juan Iñigo Carrera’s chapter, ‘Method: from the Grundrisse to Capital’, explores the development of Marx’s method, from the 1840s onwards. Iñigo Carrera argues that the Grundrisse constitute a step in the development of an original method: the reproduction of the concrete by means of thought, as opposed to its representation – a method which, … Read more

Starosta, G. (2010b). Marx studies in the Anglophone world. Fenomenologia e societa’, (3), 11–17.

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ABSTRACT Contemporary Marx scholarship in the Anglophone world revolves around the consolidation and refinement of certain themes and perspectives whose origins can be traced back to the late 1970s and early 1980s. These debates around Marx’s intellectual legacy have entailed both a methodological and a substantive re-examination of his major scientific work: Capital. This paper offers … Read more

Starosta, G. (2008). The Commodity-Form and the Dialectical Method: On the Structure of Marx’s Exposition in Chapter 1 of Capital. Science & Society, 72(3), 295–318.

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ABSTRACT The last 10 or 15 years have witnessed a renewed interest in Marx’s dialectical method and its implications for value theory. However, most works have not sufficiently thematized the peculiar role of the phase of analysis in Marx’s dialectical investigation generally and in his presentation in particular. Furthermore, they have not paid sufficient attention to the specific form of the … Read more

Fitzsimons, A. (2012b). Relaciones mercantiles y conciencia: una discusión a partir de los desarrollos de Marx sobre el fetichismo [Commodity relations and consciousness: a discussion based on Marx’s developments on fetishism]. En G. Caligaris & A. Fitzsimons (Eds.), Relaciones económicas y políticas. Aportes para el estudio de su unidad con base en la obra de Karl Marx (pp. 20–52). Buenos Aires: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas.

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ABSTRACT Marx´s exposition on the determination of consciousness regarding the general social relation of capitalist society in its simple form, the commodity form, is examined in this chapter. Through a detailed analysis of the commodity fetishism section, the unity between commodity as a social relation and the consciousness form of private producers is examined and … Read more

Starosta, Guido (2015), Marx’s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity. Brill.

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Starosta, Guido Marx’s Capital, Method y Revolutionary Subjectivity Brill, Leiden, 2015. ISBN: 978-90-04-30647-9 TABLE OF CONTENTS – Acknowledgements – Introduction: On the Current State of Revolutionary Theory – Part I. Marx’s Early Critique of Political Economy: The Discovery of the Revolutionary Subject and the Development of Science as Practical Criticism 1. The Dialectic of Alienated … Read more

Caligaris, G., & Starosta, G. (2015). La crítica marxiana de la dialéctica hegeliana. De la reproducción ideal de un proceso ideal a la reproducción ideal de un proceso real [The marxian critique of the hegelian dialectic. From the ideal reproduction of an ideal process to the ideal reproduction of a real process]. Praxis Filosófica, (41), 81–112

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This article examines the connection between Hegel’s and Marx’s respective dialectical methods in the light of the recent Marxist debates on the subject matter. It argues that the development of the Marxian critique of political economy cannot uncritically appropriate the content or the form of Hegel’s dialectical method. More specifically, the article submits that there is a “rational kernel” in Hegel’s work, which can be found in his discovery of self-movement as the simplest form taken by the real. However, insofar as he takes a pure thought-form as point of departure, which, moreover, results from an act of absolute abstraction, the aforementioned “rational kernel” becomes expounded under a “mystical shell”. As a consequence, his dialectic remains external to the movement of the real concrete.

KEYWORDS: Dialectical method; Materialism; Idealism; Logic; Capital

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Caligaris, G., & Starosta, G. (2014). Which “Rational Kernel”? Which “Mystical Shell”? A Contribution to the Debate on the Connection between Hegel’s Logic and Marx’s Capital. En T. Smith & F. Moseley (Eds.), Marx’s Capital and Hegel’s Logic. A Reexamination (pp. 89–112). Leiden: Brill.

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ABSTRACT The chapter argues that in the Logic Hegel managed to discover the simplest form of existence of the real: the movement of affirmation through self-negation. As a consequence, he correctly presents the method of science as the systematic unfolding of the immanent life of the subject-matter. However, in so far as Hegel´s systematic dialectic … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2014b). Dialectics on Its Feet, or the Form of the Consciousness of the Working Class as Historical Subject. En T. Smith (Ed.), Marx’s Capital and Hegel’s Logic (pp. 64–88). Leiden: Brill

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ABSTRACT Juan Iñigo Carrera’s chapter (‘Dialectics on its Feet, or the Form of the Consciousness of the Working Class as Historical Subject’) argues that the need to place dialectics on its feet is not a matter of adapting Hegel’s logic to a materialist point of view, but is instead the necessity of transcending the historical … Read more