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  • Introduction
  • Part I
    • Hegel’s Preface to the First Edition of The Science of Logic
    • Understanding and Reason
    • Reason
    • Some Historical Observations on Understanding
    • Consciousness
    • Preface to The Second Edition
    • Dialectical Thought In Practical Life
    • Understanding
    • Dialectic
    • The Natural Moments of Thought
    • Consciousness and the Object
    • Object of the Investigation
    • Method of the Investigation
  • Part II - The Hegelian Logic
    • The Doctrine of Being
    • The Doctrine of Essence
      • Identity, Difference and Contradiction
      • Contradiction
      • Ground: the Proof of the Absolute
      • Review and Leninist Interlude
      • Appearance and Actuality
      • Essence in Action
        • i. Lenin after 1914
        • ii. Marxism today
    • The Doctrine of the Notion
      • Leninism and the Notion
      • Lenin After 1917
      • Leninism and Ourselves
    • The Universals of 1948
  • Trotskyism: Synthetic Cognition
    • The Absolute Idea
    • The Leap
    • Dialectic in Action
    • What We Propose to Do
    • The French Revolution in Historical Logic
    • Form and Content
    • Cause and Effect
    • Practice
  • Notes