Abstract

In the framework of this journal, the full-length acknowledgement and review of a book with pure philosophical intentions is justified by the central position that the dialectic occupies within Marxism, and through the insights which could be obtained if one considers contemporary philosophy from a dialectical perspective relating philosophy to contemporary society, and to the entire socio-historical situation. Moreover, it is not a question of analyzing Marck's examinations of individual systems of modern philosophy, and his reactions to them. Instead, it ought to be asked whether and to what extent the basic problem of the dialectic is developed in these works, and whether a “cross-section of current philosophy, from the viewpoint of the problem of the dialectic,” is at all possible.