Reading Capital

Name: Reading Capital
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781844673476
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By Étienne Balibar and Louis Althusser

Series: Radical Thinkers

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Reading Capital offers a rigorous and revolutionary interpretation of Marx's Capital through a technique called "symptomatic reading," which uncovers its philosophical core beyond the text's silences and gaps. Louis Althusser presents Marx's structural analysis of production as a groundbreaking rupture that ushers in a new scientific understanding. Étienne Balibar builds on Althusser's conceptual innovations such as "overdetermination" and "social formation," analysing the historical and structural dimensions of production in Marx's thought with fresh scrutiny.
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This work is suited to readers interested in deep philosophical and Marxist theory, particularly those studying structuralist approaches to politics, economics, and social science.

A foundational text of 'structuralist Marxism' which transformed the face of modern philosophy and social theory.

A landmark of French thought, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations

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Establishing a rigorous programme of "symptomatic reading" that cuts through the silences and lacunae of Capital to reveal its philosophical core, Louis Althusser interprets Marx's structural analysis of production as a revolutionary break—the basis of a completely new science.

Building on a series of Althusser's conceptual innovations that includes "overdetermination" and "social formation," Étienne Balibar explores the historical and structural facets of production as Marx understood them, scrutinising many of the most fundamental points in Capital, as though for the first time.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781844673476

Publisher: Verso Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 June 2009

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Verso Books

Contributors:

Translated by Ben Brewster

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 29.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 408g

Pages: 384

Collections

Education & Reference Louis Althusser Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Politics & Current Affairs Series: Radical Thinkers Étienne Balibar

About the Author

Louis Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in France in 1990. He taught Philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party.