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The biopolitical body of Capital : from labour value to labour legislation / Jacques Bidet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bidet, Jacques, Author.
- Series:
- Marx and Marxisms: new horizons
- Standardized Title:
- Marx et la Loi travail. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/896d9cae-67a5-db21-8039-e19a3c9526a5
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. Kapital.
- Marx, Karl.
- Labor--Philosophy.
- Labor.
- Biopolitics--Philosophy.
- Biopolitics.
- Marxian economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (70 pages).
- Other Title:
- From labour value to labour legislation
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2026.
- Contents:
- Marx's Works Cited and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The Three Bodies of the Modern Worker
- 2. Mortal Body and Legal Body, Social Body and Proper Body
- 3. National Body, Species Body, Foreign Body
- Conclusion: Rereading Marx from Foucault's Perspective
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- "Routledge Focus" -- from cover.
- Translated from the French.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "Originally published in French, this English edition translated by Jacques Bidet offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary reading of Capital, challenging dominant mainstream interpretations that overlook Marx's critique of capitalist society. Centering on the chapter "The Working Day," the book reveals Marx's analysis of labor exploitation as a biopolitical struggle between capital and living labor. Drawing on Foucault's concept of biopolitics, it reframes wage labor as a conflict over bodily autonomy, social reproduction, and the limits of capitalist control. Through a meticulous reconstruction of Marx's method-moving from abstract to concrete-eminent Marx scholar Jacques Bidet identifies three distinct levels of labor analysis (general, commodity-based, and wage labor), bringing clarity often lost in mainstream commentaries. He critiques influential interpretations by Harvey, Negri, Postone, and others, while acknowledging Marx's limits in theorizing race, gender, and nation. To address these gaps, Bidet proposes a "Marxist metastructural theory of modernity" that extends Marx's emancipatory vision. Accessible yet scholarly, The Biopolitical Body of Marx's Capital is ideal for students and researchers in politics, philosophy, economics, sociology, and history. It speaks to readers seeking a politically engaged, analytically precise understanding of Marx's work-one that resonates with today's global crises and the urgent need for transformative change"-- Provided by publisher.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 05, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Biopolitical Body of Capital
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9781003737094
- 1003737099
- 9781040845837
- 1040845835
- 9781040845813
- 1040845819
- Publisher Number:
- 40033312895
- CIPO000336472
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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