Reading Capital
Establishing a rigorous program 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 Althussers's conceptual innovations that includes "overdetermination" and "social formation," Étienne Balibar explores the historical and structural facets of production as Marx understood them, scrutinizing many of the most fundamental points in Capital, as though for the first time.
Paperback, 340 pages
ISBN: 9781844673476
June 2009
$19.95 / £6.99
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Part of the Radical Thinkers series
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One reads his passionate study with attention, even excitement.
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