A critical examination and commentary of Hegel's logic (original) (raw)

Written: September-December 1914
First Published: 1929 in Lenin Miscellany IX
Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, 4th Edition, Moscow, 1976, Volume 38, p.85-241
Publisher: Progress Publishers
Translated: Clemence Dutt
Editor: Stewart Smith
Original Transcription & Markup: R. Cymbala & Andy Blunden
Re-Marked up & Proofread by: K. Goins (2007)
Public Domain: Lenin Internet Archive (2003). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source.

Conspectus of Hegel’s book “The Science of Logic” consists of three notebooks, which have a common pagination from 1 to 115. On the cover of the first notebook, in addition to the inscription "Hegel. Logic I," there is the entry: “Notebooks on Philosophy. Hegel, Feuerbach and others.” On the cover of the second notebook, to the pagination 49-88, there is the appendage: NB p. 76 (pp. 192-193 of this volume). At the bottom of page III, there is written: "End of Logic. 17.XII.1914.” The conspectus was probably begun during the first half of September 1914, when Lenin moved from Poronin to Bern, Switzerland.

Note that this document has undergone special formating to ensure that Lenin’s sidenotes fit on the page, marking as best as possible where they were located in the original manuscript.