Source: Knowledge & Human Interest, 1968, publ. Polity Press, 1987. Chapter
Three: The
Idea of the Theory of Knowledge as Social Theory reproduced here.
The
interpretive scheme set forth by Marx for the Phenomenology of Mind contains
the program for an instrumentalist translation of Hegel’s philosophy of
absolute reflection:
The
greatness of Hegel’s phenomenology and its end result-the dialectic of negativity
as motive and productive principle-is thus ... that Hegel grasps the
self-generation of man as a process, objectification as de-objectification, as
alienation and the overcoming of this alienation; in other words, that he
grasps the essence of labour and comprehends objective man, who is true man
because of his reality, as the result of his
