ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: MARXISM
Volume 20
MARXS GRUNDRISSE AND HEGELS LOGIC
MARXS GRUNDRISSE AND HEGELS LOGIC
HIROSHI UCHIDA
Edited by
TERRELL CARVER
First published in 1988
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MARXS GRUNDRISSE AND HEGELS LOGIC
HIROSHI UCHIDA
Edited by Terrell Carver
First published in 1988 by
Routledge
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Uchida, Hiroshi
Marxs Grundrisse and Hegels Logic.
1. Society. Theories of Karl Marx, 18181883.
Influence of German philosophy. Hegel,
Georg Wilhelm Friedreich, 17701831
I. Title II. Carver, Terrell, 1946
301.0924
ISBN 0-415-00385-7
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ISBN 0-415-00385-7
Contents
To the memory of
My Father, Sokichi Uchida (190262)
and
My Mother, Moto Uchida (190476)
I should like to thank Yuhikaku Publishers, Tokyo, especially Mr Shinsuke Ito, for granting permission for an English translation of my previously published work in Japanese. This book is my English translation of Chapter 3 of my book Marxs middle-period critique of political economy (Chuki Marx no Keizaigakuhihan) (Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 1985), pp. 12578, altered and enlarged, though the arguments, quotations and references are substantially the same. I have also included part of Chapter 1 of my book, and some sections from my article Definitions of Substance in the Grundrisse (Keizaigakuhihanyoko niokeru Jittaikitei) in Monthly Report of the Institute for Social Sciences of Senshu University (Tokyo), 266 (20 September 1985), pp. 213. The Appendix, Select Bibliography and Index are new.
I am very grateful to Dr Terrell Carver, the editor of this book, for improving and polishing my clumsy English to make it readable and concise. If this book has something to contribute to the international academic study of Karl Marx, I owe most to him for that merit. Needless to say, I am entirely responsible for any mistakes and defects.
My work on this book was accomplished between January and April 1987 in my study room at the Department of Politics, University of Bristol, where I have been Visiting Professor for the academic year 19867. I am greatly indebted to Professor J. M. Lee, Head of the Politics Department, for arranging this stay, to others on the academic staff, and to the secretaries Mrs Mary Woods, for her high sense of humour, and Miss Anne Dempsey, for her thoughtfulness and understanding. I am especially grateful to Dr George Sanford for kindly introducing me to the publishers Routledge.
I have been greatly impressed with the high quality of service provided by the staff of the University Library at Bristol. I shall remember them always with gratitude for their help.
My accommodation for the year has been at Burwalls, the Short-Course and Conference Centre of the Univeristy of Bristol. How often I have enjoyed the commandingly beautiful view of Bristol at night from the window of my room, and how it made me think of my family in Japan! I am very grateful to Mr Derek Smith and the other staff at Burwalls for their splendid hospitality.
It is my pleasure to express gratitude to Senshu University, Tokyo, particularly to my colleagues at the Department of Economics, for giving me this fruitful year for academic study.
Last but not least, I am very grateful to Mr Andrew Lockett, Editor for Social Sciences at Routledge, who has encouraged me to publish this book.
Hiroshi Uchida
Bristol
It has been my very great pleasure to assist Hiroshi Uchida in preparing his own translation of his Japanese book and other materials for the press, and to have had the benefit of his company during his year at the University of Bristol. His work is of major significance for contemporary scholarship on Karl Marx, and I warmly recommend it to an English readership.
Marxs Grundrisse manuscripts, unpublished until 193941 and virtually unknown in the West until the 1960s, have been the object of increasing scholarly attention, translation and commentary. Since the mid-1970s, when an English version became readily available, interest has steadily quickened. The relation of Marxs work as a whole to that of the philosopher G. W. F. Hegel has been an important issue in interpreting Marx since 1859, when Friedrich Engels first declared it to be crucial. This is a point reiterated by V. I. Lenin and numerous more academic commentators.
Professor Uchidas book is the first full-length study that links Marxs Grundrisse to Hegels Logic in a thorough textual analysis that makes the connections explicit. Moreover this book is also the first work to appear in English that reflects a lively tradition of Japanese scholarship and debate about the nature and implications of Marxs thought. Books by Japanese economists on Marx have been available in English translation for some time, but more wide-ranging textual, methodological and philosophical inquiries have not, till now, reached a western audience.
Marxs Grundrisse and Hegels Logic is a complex but rewarding work. The