Many of the leading thinkers on dialectics in the Marxian tradition have collaborated here to put forward and debate challenging new perspectives on the nature and importance of dialectics. The issues dealt with range from the philosophical consideration of the precise nature of dialectical reasoning, to dialectics and economic theory, and to more concrete concerns such as how dialectics can help us think about globalization, freedom, inflation and subjectivity.

Includes prominent list of contributors; all are distinguished thinkers in the field of dialectics and the Marxian traditionOffers a broad range of contrasting perspectives on the subject, many of which break new groundTakes both a philosophical and political economic approach

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction Beyond the Bad Infinity of Capital: On Marx's Dialectics of Freedom; D.McNally Systematic and Historical Dialectics: Toward a Marxian Theory of Globalization; T.Smith On 'Becoming Necessary' in an Organic Systematic Dialectic: The Case of Creeping Inflation; G.Reuten Superseding Lukacs: Towards a Contribution to the Theory of Subjectivity; R.Albritton Lukacs and the Dialectical Critique of Capitalism; M.Postone From Hegel to Marx to the Dialectic of Capital; J.R.Bell The Dialectic, of Logic that Coincides with Economics; T.T.Sekine The Problem of Use Value for a Dialectic of Capital; C.J.Arthur Things Fall Apart: Historical and Systematic Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy; P.Murray Marx's Dialectical Method is More than a Mode of Exposition: A Critique of Systematic Dialectics; B.Ollman The Specificity of Dialectical Reason (for Hegel); S.Kourkoulakos Index