Teleology and Work: Subjective purpose in the Logic of Hegel and the Work Process in Marx.

Abstract

The explanation of the work process in the formulation set forth in The Capital implies a synthesis of the conception of objectivity in Marx's thinking; that breaks with the iusnaturalism of the Classic Political Economy. However, its dialectico-praxis structuring of work as a purpose in the subject-object relationship was the object of a contradictorily re-naturalizing foundation. Marx's teleology exposed in Capital is based on a critical assumption of Hegelian teleology. In that, the subjective purpose is based on the subjective action reduced by the forces of superior natural exteriority. In Marx, on the contrary, there is a renewed understanding of the work process, with an objectivity that includes the subjective moment and the transformation of exteriority as parts of the work process. However, the analysis of this differentiation, in front of Hegel's teleology, can serve as a basis for a visualization of the logical elements that answer the interpretations that base the work process as an objective and re-naturalize.