20世纪90年代以来，辩证法成了西方马克思主义研究的新前沿，而《新世纪的辩证法》使西方马克思主义研究的这一新前沿得以更为充分的彰显。内在关系辩证法、系统辩证法、矛盾辩证法和实践辩证法等多种形态的辩证法理论得到了充分的阐述。尽管各位学者的关注点有所不同，其所阐述的辩证法理论形态各异，而其根本宗旨都是完全相同的，那就是“改变世界”。

Since 1990s, dialectics has become the new frontier of Western Marxism and this has been strengthened in Dialectics for the New Century. Variform dialectic theories, such as Dialectics of Internal Relations, Systematic Dialectic, Dialectics of Contradiction, Dialectic as Praxis and so on, have been fully set forth. Even though the focus of the various scholars are different, and their dialectic theories are in a variety of forms, their fundamental aim is the same, which is “to change the world”.