The concept in crisis : Reading Capital today / Nick Nesbitt, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nesbitt, Nick, 1964- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Althusser, Louis, 1918-1990. Lire "le capital.".

Althusser, Louis.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. Kapital.

Marx, Karl.

Marxian economics.

Philosophy, Marxist.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Summary:

The publication of Reading Capital—by Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Rancière—in 1965 marked a key intervention in Marxist philosophy and critical theory, bringing forth a stunning array of concepts that continue to inspire philosophical reflection of the highest magnitude. The Concept in Crisis reconsiders the volume’s reading of Marx and renews its call for a critique of capitalism and culture for the twenty-first century. The contributors—who include Alain Badiou, Étienne Balibar, and Fernanda Navarro—interrogate Althusser's contributions in particular within the context of what is surely the most famous collective reading of Marx ever undertaken. Among other topics, they offer a symptomatic critique of Althusser; consider his writing as a materialist production of knowledge; analyze the volume’s conceptualization of value and crisis; examine how leftist Latin American leaders like Che Guevara and Subcomandante Marcos engaged with Althusser and Reading Capital; and draw out the volume's implications and use for feminist theory and praxis. Retrieving the inspiration that drove Althusser's reinterpretation of Marx, The Concept in Crisis explains why Reading Capital's revolutionary inflection retains its critical appeal, prompting readers to reconsider Marx's relevance in an era of neoliberal capitalism.Contributors. Emily Apter, Alain Badiou, Étienne Balibar, Bruno Bosteels, Adrian Johnston, Warren Montag, Fernanda Navarro, Nick Nesbitt, Knox Peden, Nina Power, Robert J. C. Young

Contents:

Reading Reading Capital

The Althusserian definition of "theory" / Alain Badiou

Rereading the symptomatic reading / Robert J.C. Young

Translation and event : rereading Reading Capital / Emily Apter

To have done with alienation, or, how to orient oneself in ideology / Knox Peden

Reading Capital in context

A point of heresy in Western Marxism: Althusser's and Tronti's antithetic readings

Of capital in the early 1960s / Étienne Balibar

Reading Capital from the margins : notes on the logic of uneven development / Bruno Bosteels

"To shatter all the classical theories of causality" : immanent and absent causes in Althusser and Lacan (1963-1965) / Warren Montag

Marx's bones: breaking with Althusser / Adrian Johnston

Reading Capital today

Reading social reproduction into Reading Capital / Nina Power

Value as symptom / Nick Nesbitt

Vive la crise! / Fernanda Navarro.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822372905

0822372908

OCLC:

1008947096