The Mystical Origins of Hegel's Thought

redstar2000 · #1 4th January 2006, 11:17

Has anyone here run into the writings of Cyril Smith?

They were recently recommended to me by a comrade for the interesting insights they give to the mystical foundations of Hegel's ideas.

Here are two of them...

Human Production and Divine Creation

Hegel, Marx and the Enlightenment: an Interim Report.

Probably too esoteric for the tastes of most people...but I thought they were kind of interesting.

Re-visionist 05 · #2 6th January 2006, 00:31

looks pretty interesting, Hegals one of my favorites, but he's also the one ive been the most confused by.

Monty Cantsin · #3 6th January 2006, 01:16

i've always liked Cyril Smith but i have not read "Karl Marx and Human Self-creation" - it's the frist time i've seen it online or anywhere.

most people should know who Cyril Smith is here because we've posted his essays in the e-zine before.

encephalon · #4 6th January 2006, 07:37

here's a description of his book, which can be downloaded here:

Quote:

This is a report on work done since I wrote MARX AT THE MILLENNIUM. (Pluto, 1996.) In that book, after decades as an 'orthodox' Marxist-Leninist, I tried, with great difficulty to re-examine the basic assumptions of that body of doctrine and to contrast them with the actual ideas of Karl Marx.

On the one hand, Marx's humanism had been totally buried by our orthodoxy, and had to be disinterred. On the other, the pseudo-scientific notions of historical and dialectical materialism had to be replaced by Marx's critical-revolutionary thought. I have since attempted to show more clearly that these two sides are, in fact, inseparable. For this, it is necessary to probe more deeply into Marx's critique of Hegel's dialectic and to place both of them more carefully into the history of philosophy as a whole. These are two aspects of the new book.

Monty Cantsin · #5 6th January 2006, 08:53

he has 3 books as far as i know -

"Karl Marx and Human Self-creation"
"Marx at the Millenium"
"Karl Marx and the furture of the Human"

the second two of which i've read large section of.

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