Studies on Marx & Hegel

Studies

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MARX and HEGEL

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STUDIES ON AND

MARX

HEGEL

Jean Hyppolite translated, with an Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography, by JOHN O'NEILL

i 'f HARPER TORCHBOOKS Harper & Row, Publishers New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London

This book was published in hardcdver by Basic Books, Inc. It is here reprinted by arrangement. Originally published in French under the title

Etudes sur Marx et Hegel by Marcel Riviere et Cie in 1955. STUDIES ON MARX.AND HEGEL

Copyright © 1969 by Basic Books, Inc.

All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For informataion address Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto. First HARPER TORCHBOOK edition published 1973. STANDARD BOOK NUMBER:

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to the English Edition Jean Hyppolite

In 1907 the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce published an essay entitled "What Is Living and What Is Dead in the Philosophy of Hegel." The time had come, it seemed, to make a final reckon­ ing of Hegel'"s influence (which was considerable" everywhere in Europe except France) and what might survive of his legacy. Croce could not envisage a Hegelian renaissance; he was unable to foresee that by a strange paradox Hegel would become associated with the existentialist current whose preJ