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Reading Capital

The Complete Edition

The Complete Edition

The Complete Edition

By Louis Althusser
Introduction by Etienne Balibar
Contributions by Roger Establet, Jacques Ranciere and Pierre Macherey

By Louis Althusser
Introduction by Etienne Balibar
Contributions by Roger Establet, Jacques Ranciere and Pierre Macherey

By Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar
Translated by Ben Brewster

By Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar
Translated by Ben Brewster

By Louis Althusser
Introduction by Etienne Balibar
Contributions by Roger Establet, Jacques Ranciere and Pierre Macherey

By Louis Althusser
Introduction by Etienne Balibar
Contributions by Roger Establet, Jacques Ranciere and Pierre Macherey

By Louis Althusser
Introduction by Etienne Balibar
Contributions by Roger Establet, Jacques Ranciere and Pierre Macherey

By Louis Althusser
Introduction by Etienne Balibar
Contributions by Roger Establet, Jacques Ranciere and Pierre Macherey

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    About Reading Capital

    A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time

    Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher, maintained that Marx’s project could only be revived if its scientific and revolutionary novelty was thoroughly divested of all traces of humanism, idealism, Hegelianism and historicism. In order to complete this critical rereading, Althusser and his students at the École normale supérieure ran a seminar on Capital, re-examining its arguments, strengths and weaknesses in detail, and it was out of those discussions that this book was born.

    Previously only available in English in highly abridged form, this edition, appearing fifty years after its original publication in France, restores chapters by Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Rancière. It includes a major new introduction by Étienne Balibar.

    About Reading Capital

    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.

    About Reading Capital

    A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time

    Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher, maintained that Marx’s project could only be revived if its scientific and revolutionary novelty was thoroughly divested of all traces of humanism, idealism, Hegelianism and historicism. In order to complete this critical rereading, Althusser and his students at the École normale supérieure ran a seminar on Capital, re-examining its arguments, strengths and weaknesses in detail, and it was out of those discussions that this book was born.

    Previously only available in English in highly abridged form, this edition, appearing fifty years after its original publication in France, restores chapters by Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Rancière. It includes a major new introduction by Étienne Balibar.

    About Reading Capital

    A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time

    Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher, maintained that Marx’s project could only be revived if its scientific and revolutionary novelty was thoroughly divested of all traces of humanism, idealism, Hegelianism and historicism. In order to complete this critical rereading, Althusser and his students at the École normale supérieure ran a seminar on Capital, re-examining its arguments, strengths and weaknesses in detail, and it was out of those discussions that this book was born.

    Previously only available in English in highly abridged form, this edition, appearing fifty years after its original publication in France, restores chapters by Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Rancière. It includes a major new introduction by Étienne Balibar.

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    Category: Politics | Philosophy

    Paperback | $49.95
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    Jul 12, 2016 | 576 Pages | ISBN 9781784781415

    Category: Politics | Philosophy

    Paperback | $19.95
    Published by Verso
    Jun 09, 2009 | 384 Pages | 5-1/5 x 7-4/5 | ISBN 9781844673476

    Category: Politics | Philosophy

    Hardcover | $140.00
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    Jul 12, 2016 | 576 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9781784781446

    Category: Politics | Philosophy

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Verso
    Jul 12, 2016 | 576 Pages | ISBN 9781784781422
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    “One of the central texts of French structuralism (and of modern Marxism as well). Its critique of humanism and what Althusser called historicism remains relevant and ought to be renewed in our time.”
    —Fredric Jameson

    “The complete edition of Reading Capital returns us to the excitement of the book’s first publication. It not only makes available some remarkable essays not included in previous English editions but also allows us to see clearly how the essays emerged from the dynamic interactions of a university seminar.”
    —Michael Hardt, co-author of the Empire trilogy

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