C.L.R. James. Notes on Dialectics.

Contents

Introduction

PART I

Hegel’s Preface to the First Edition of The Science of Logic

Understanding and Reason

Reason

Some Historical Observations on Understanding

Consciousness

Preface to the Second Edition

Dialectical Thought in Practical Life

Understanding

Dialectic

The Natural Moments of Thought

Consciousness and the Object

Object of the Investigation

Method of the Investigation

PART II

The Hegelian Logic

The Doctrine of Being

The Doctrine of Essence

Identity, Difference and Contradiction

Contradiction

Ground: the Proof of the Absolute

Review and Leninist Interlude

Appearance and Actuality

Essence in Action

The Doctrine of the Notion

Leninism and the Notion

Lenin After 1917

Leninism and Ourselves

The Universals of 1948

Trotskyism: Synthetic Cognition

The Absolute Idea

The Leap

Dialectic in Action

What We Propose to Do

The French Revolution in Historical Logic

Form and Content

Cause and Effect

Practice