Reading capital / Louis Althusser [and] Étienne Balibar ; translated by Ben Brewster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Althusser, Louis, 1918-1990.

Contributor:

Balibar, Étienne, 1942-

Standardized Title:

Lire "Le capital." English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. Kapital.

Marx, Karl.

Kapital (Marx, Karl).

Physical Description:

340 pages

Edition:

Verso edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Verso, 1979.

Contents:

Foreword to the Italian edition

Part I. From Capital to Marx's philosophy / Louis Althusser

Part II. The object of Capital / Louis Althusser. Introduction ; Marx and his discoveries ; The merits of classical economics ; The errors of classical economics : an outline for a concept of historical time ; Marxism is not a historicism ; The epistemological propositions of Capital (Marx, Engels) ; The object of political economy ; Marx's critique ; Marx's immense theoretical revolution ; Appendix: On the 'ideal average' and the forms of transition

Part III. The basic concepts of historical materialism / Étienne Balibar. From periodization to the modes of production ; The elements of the structure and their history ; On reproduction ; Elements for a theory of transition

Glossary.

Notes:

Abridged and revised edition of 'Lire le Capital', Paris: Maspero, 1965.

ISBN:

0902308564

9780902308565

OCLC:

940331300