CLR James's Notes on Dialectics Left

Author John McClendon has written first ever book-length study of CLR James's Notes on Dialectics. This text opens and simultaneously closes the book on James'sNotes through an erudite and expansive look at the political, social, and cultural context in which James conducted an unprecedented investigation of Marxism.

John H. McClendon III is Associate Professor of African American Studies and American Cultural Studies at Bates College.

Preface

ix

Introduction

xiii

Reminiscences of the James Legacy

1

(40)

Political Context and Philosophical Locus: The Trotskyite/Stalinist Polemic

41

(36)

James on Understanding and Reason: Kant, Hegel, and German Idealism

77

(52)

Hegel's Idealism: Marxist Materialist Reading and Inversion

129

(52)

James's Locus as Marxist Philosopher: The Humanist/Anti-Humanist Debate

181

(58)

Comparing Notes: James and Lenin on Hegel and Dialectical Materialism

239

(48)

Lenin's Theory of the Vanguard Party: Contra James's Self-Activity of the Proletariat

287

(52)

Afterword Beyond the Boundary of the Johnson-Forest Tendency

339

(58)

Bibliography

397

(20)

Index

417

(10)

About the Author

427

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CLR James's Notes on Dialectics Left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism?

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