| Reading Capital: The Complete Edition Contributor(s): Althusser, Louis (Author), Balibar, Étienne (Introduction by), Establet, Roger (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 178478141X ISBN-13: 9781784781415 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $44.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economics - Theory - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 335.412 |
| LCCN: 2015028634 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.40 lbs) 576 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher, maintained that Marx's project could only be revived if its scientific and revolutionary novelty was thoroughly divested of all traces of humanism, idealism, Hegelianism and historicism. In order to complete this critical rereading, Althusser and his students at the cole normale sup rieure ran a seminar on Capital, re-examining its arguments, strengths and weaknesses in detail, and it was out of those discussions that this book was born. 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. |