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BOOK REVIEWS 283 this 'odd' view, Mr. Inwood, who elsewhere notes Hegel's ignorance of what 'we' call 'standard logic' (by which he must mean logic since Frege's Begriffschrift of 1879), cheerfully concludes: "The Logic [sc. Hegel's] does of course.., express what we would call propositions. It does, after all, consist of sentences and is not simply a list of words" (189). Q.E.D. More often than not, having put what Hegel "would say" in 'standard form'-trotting out an elegant list of propositions, all nicely numbered--Inwood finds that Hegel has been logically careless, "blurring," "running together," "glossing over," orw Inwood's favorite, often used repeatedly on a single page--"confiating" two or more "quite different distinctions." The first and most critical distinction subjected to such analysis is that between Begriffe (here 'concepts') and Vorstellungen ('conceptions'). Since Hegel says it is the main business of philosophy to translate VorsteUungen,content in the form of terms or propositions as objects for consciousness (empirical or transcendental ), into Begriffe, content in the form of the determinate individuality of things as Aristotelianly 'separate' thoughts, independent of consciousness' appetite for truth (which Hegel calls 'correctness'), the distinction between Vorstellungenand Begriffe, ifa mere "conflation," would transform his entire philosophical enterprise into so much elaborate nonsense. But for Mr. Inwood, who "conflates" the Phenomenologywith the system (eliciting propositions from either indescriminately) and ignores Hegel's repeated argument that the former (together with the "Vorbegriff" to the Encyclopedia, see ยง 25A) enables us to reject the propositional attitudes (Vorstellungen) to objectivity, i.e., 'correctness', through an immanent critique of them all (the 'argument' of the Phenomenology) that is presupposed for any systematic thoughts of determinacy (Begriffe ), this distinction, like many others he cites, will not wash. As a result, the longest English language study of Hegel's 'system' is entirely innocent of the most elementary precondition for a comprehension of that system. Perhaps it is true that analytic philosophers have "only recently" turned their attention to Hegel. But the Hegel in question remains strikingly similar to the one rejected by Russell in 1898.' K. R. Dov~ The State University of New York at Purchase Allen Oakley. The Making of Marx's Critical Theory. A BibliographicalAnalysis. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983. Pp. xii + 143. Paper, $8.95. There is a story that, when the young Karl Kautsky asked Karl Marx about the possibility of a complete edition of his works, the old man replied rather sardonically that they would first have to be written. Marx's congenital reluctance to publish, his ill-health, and the sheer size of his immense project meant that his Oeuvre remained ' On Bradley and Frege's parallel shifts from termto propositionalvariables in logic, and its meanings for philosophical analysis, see the modestly entitled manifesto of analysis in its heyday : The Revolutionm Philosophy,introduced by Gilbert Ryle (London: Macmillan, 1956), esp., 6ft., 15ft., and 33ff. Hegel's critique of bothforms of logic, the 'Fregean' known to him through the Stoics, is of course unmentioned. Mr. Inwood shows that analytic philosophy still awaits its discoverer of this critique. The egg of Columbus has yet to be cracked. 284 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY dramatically incomplete. One of the major difficulties in understanding Marx, therefore , has been to distinguish the precise status and relationship of his various texts: the constantly developing project of his life's work. This difficulty has been compounded by the fact that the interpretation of Marx has been the subject of acute controversy and the importance accorded to certain texts has been liable to be determined by prior preference. The problem of the continuity of Marx's thought and whether the "real" Marx is to be found more in the humanist philosophical writings of the Economicand Philosophical Manuscripts or the more rigorously economic and determinist writings centering around Capitalis only the most obvious of these problems. Students of Marx will have reason to be grateful to Allen Oakley for his careful and detailed account of the development and relationship of Marx's writings. His intention is to exhibit the bibliographical framework within which Marx's evolving ideas took shape. In the four main chapters of his short book...

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