This summarises the function of the two papers by Chris that were circulated to those interested in the workshop as attachments.
For copyright reasons, they cannot be placed on the website since they are reprints of past or forthcoming published works. If you would like to receive a copy and have not yet done so please e-mail the workshop organiser, Alan Freeman, on A.Freeman@greenwich.ac.uk
Chris writes: "The Hegel Marx Question has two dimensions. One is what can we learn about method. The other is what can we learn about ontology.
"In the first area it is argued that Marx's method of exposition especially is modelled on Hegel's Logic. I have written on that in the paper entitled 'Systematic dialectic'.
"The other question is whether there is anything in the argmuent that if one asks what Kapital is then one can claim it is a subject in the Hegelian sene or more strongly an avatar of Hegel's Idea or even Hegel's Spirit. This is what I believe, and it is just because of this that I think it is apposite to use the method. Others think the method can be extracted from its idealist setting and has no essential connection with it. For my latest thoughts on ontology I attached 'From the critique of Hegel to the Critique of Capital'
"It is to be published by Macmillan in "The Hegel-Marx Connection" eds
T. Burns and I. Fraser".