Reading Capital

Etienne Balibar, Ben Brewster (Translator), Louis. Althusser

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Author
Etienne Balibar, Ben Brewster (Translator), Louis. Althusser
Publish Date
2009-06-09
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
Verso Books
Number of Pages
384
Edition
Later Printing
ISBN-10
1844673472
ISBN-13
9781844673476
citemno
204633
Subject
Political Philosophy
SKU
9781844673476

Description

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.