Dialectical investigations Book

	Acknowledgments
	General Introduction	1
Pt. I	Introduction to Dialectics
1	The Meaning of Dialectics	9
Pt. II	Advanced Dialectics
2	Putting Dialectics to Work: The Process of Abstraction in Marx's Method	23
I	The Problem: How to Think Adequately about Change and Interaction	23
II	The Solution Lies in the Process of Abstraction	24
III	How Marx's Abstractions Differ	27
IV	The Philosophy of Internal Relations	33
V	Three Modes of Abstraction: Extension	39
VI	Level of Generality, and	53
VII	Vantage Point	67
VIII	The Role of Abstractions in the Debates over Marxism	78
Pt. III	Dialectical Investigations
	Preface	87
3	Theses on the Capitalist State	89
4	Why Do We Need a Theory of the State?	94
5	Toward a Marxist Interpretation of the U.S. Constitution	102
6	The Regency of the Proletariat in Crisis: A Job for Perestroika	109
7	The Ideal of Academic Freedom as the Ideology of Academic Repression, American Style	119
8	Studying History Backward: A Neglected Feature of the Materialist Conception of History	133
9	How to Study Class Consciousness...and Why We Should	147
	Select Bibliography on Marx's Dialectical Method	180
	Index	184