
Reading Capital
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Previously only available in English in highly abridged form, this edition, appearing fifty years after its original publication in France, restores chapters by Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Ranci¿re. It includes a major new introduction by ¿tienne Balibar.
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¿tienne Balibar is Anniversary Chair at Kingston University and Professor Emeritus at the Universit¿ Paris Ouest Nanterre La D¿fense.
Jacques Ranci¿re is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII.
Pierre Macherey is Emeritus Professor at the University of Lille III.
Roger Establet is Emeritus Professor at the University of Provence.
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Editorial Note
- Presentation
- Part One: From Capital to Marx's Philosophy
- Part Two: The Concept of Critique and the Critique of Political Economy: From the 1844 Manuscripts to Capital
- Chapter 1: The Critique of Political Economy in the 1844 Manuscripts
- Chapter 2: Critique and Science in Capital
- Chapter 3: Remarks by Way of Conclusion
- Part Three: On the Process of Exposition of Capital (The Work of Concepts)
- Chapter 1: The Starting-Point and the Analysis of Wealth
- Chapter 2: The Analysis of the Commodity and the Appearance of Contradiction
- Chapter 3: The Analysis of Value
- Part Four: The Object of Capital
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Marx and his Discoveries
- Chapter 3: The Merits of Classical Economics
- Chapter 4: The Errors of Classical Economics: Outline of a Concept of Historical Time
- Chapter 5: Marxism Is Not a Historicism
- Chapter 6: The Epistemological Propositions of Capital (Marx, Engels)
- Chapter 7: The Object of Political Economy
- Chapter 8: Marx's Critique
- Chapter 9: Marx's Immense Theoretical Revolution
- Appendix: On the 'Ideal Average' and the Forms of Transition
- Part Five: On the Basic Concepts of Historical Materialism
- Chapter 1: From Periodization to the Modes of Production
- Chapter 2: The Elements of the Structure and their History
- Chapter 3: On Reproduction
- Chapter 4: Elements for a Theory of Transition
- Part Six: Presentation of the Plan of Capital
- Notes
- Glossary
- Index
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