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Reading Capital's materialist dialectic : Marx, Spinoza, and the Althusserians / Nick Nesbitt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nesbitt, Nick, 1964- author.
- Series:
- Historical materialism book series ; Volume 318.
- Historical Materialism Book Series ; Volume 318
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dialectical materialism.
- Althusser, Louis, 1918-1990.
- Althusser, Louis.
- Macherey, Pierre.
- Badiou, Alain.
- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. Kapital.
- Marx, Karl.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2024]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- While the explicit Althusserian engagement with Marx’s Capital remained largely limited to Reading Capital , after 1968, Nick Nesbitt argues, this theoretical intervention remained insistent, adopting the form of a general theory of materialist dialectic. The book thus analyzes the Althusserianist theory of a materialist dialectic across diverse sites including Althusser’s unpublished archive, Macherey’s exposition of Spinoza’s Ethics , and Badiou’s Logics of Worlds , while simultaneously bringing this fully-developed theory of materialist dialectic to bear anew on the reading of Capital itself, to show that Spinoza's influence on Marx is far greater--and that of Hegel increasingly diminishing--than has been previously thought.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Preliminary Material / Nick Nesbitt
- Copyright Page / Nick Nesbitt
- Chapter 2 What Is Materialist Analysis? Pierre Macherey’s Spinozist Epistemology / Nick Nesbitt
- Chapter 3 The Positive Logics of Capital : On Spinoza and the Elimination of the Negative Dialectic of Totality from Marx’s Revisions to Capital , 1857–1875 / Nick Nesbitt
- Chapter 4 Toward an Axiomatic Analysis of the Commodity in Badiou and Marx / Nick Nesbitt
- Chapter 5 Capital, Logic of the World / Nick Nesbitt
- Conclusion Theory and Practice Today / Nick Nesbitt
- Back Matter
- References / Nick Nesbitt.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher-supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-70359-4
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004703599 DOI
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