The product of eight years of research, Levine's study divides Marx's relation to Hegel into two provinces, areas of discontinuity and continuity. Marx's discontinuity from Hegel arose from his negation of the Hegelian System, the belief that Spirit was the predicative force in the universe. Marx's continuity with Hegel concerns Hegelian methodology, or the structural procedures of reason itself described in The Science Of Logic. Marx incorporated the organic image of Hegel and applied it to political economy and Marx interpreted economic systems, Das Kapital, as organic system. Completion of this study required that Levine not only master the bibliography of Marx, but that of Hegel as well and he discovered that a large trove of the manuscripts of the young Hegel were not available to Marx and were only published in the 20th Cent. In short, Georg Lukacs and Herbert Marcuse knew more of Hegel than Marx did. Marx's Discourse With Hegel is the first probe to answer three questions: * Which manuscripts of Hegel did Marx know? * Which manuscripts of Hegel did Marxnot know? * How the invisibility of these young Hegelian texts led to Marx's misreading of Hegel. The outcome of Marx's ignorance of early Hegel texts led to his misunderstanding of Hegel, but Marx still incorporated Hegelian methodology.

诺曼·莱文（Norman Levine），美国著名马克思学家，曾先后在美国迪堡大学、马里兰大学巴尔的摩分校、美国国际管理研究生院、美国纽约大学任历史学教授，现为菲尼克斯国际政策研究所执行主任。他在马克思与恩格斯关系、马克思与黑格尔关系等方面的研究颇有建树，以极端的“马克思恩格斯对立论”立场而闻名，在中国国内马克思主义学界产生较大的学术影响。代表作有《可悲的骗局：马克思反对恩格斯》、《辩证法内部对话》、《不同的路径：马克思主义与恩格斯主义中的黑格尔》等。