Concept in Crisis (eBook, PDF)

Reading Capital Today
Redaktion: Nick Nesbitt, Nesbitt

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The publication of Reading Capital-by Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Ranciere-in 1965 marked a key intervention in Marxist philosophy and critical theory, bringing forth a stunning array of concepts that continue to inspire philosophical reflection of the highest magnitude. The Concept in Crisis reconsiders the volume's reading of Marx and renews its call for a critique of capitalism and culture for the twenty-first century. The contributors-who include Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, and Fernanda Navarro-interrogate Althusser's contributions in particular within the context of what is surely the most famous collective reading of Marx ever undertaken. Among other topics, they offer a symptomatic critique of Althusser; consider his writing as a materialist production of knowledge; analyze the volume's conceptualization of value and crisis; examine how leftist Latin American leaders like Che Guevara and Subcomandante Marcos engaged with Althusser and Reading Capital; and draw out the volume's implications and use for feminist theory and praxis. Retrieving the inspiration that drove Althusser's reinterpretation of Marx, The Concept in Crisis explains why Reading Capital's revolutionary inflection retains its critical appeal, prompting readers to reconsider Marx's relevance in an era of neoliberal capitalism.Contributors. Emily Apter, Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Bruno Bosteels, Adrian Johnston, Warren Montag, Fernanda Navarro, Nick Nesbitt, Knox Peden, Nina Power, Robert J. C. Young

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372905
• Artikelnr.: 54682753

Autorenporträt

Nick Nesbitt is Professor of French at Princeton University and the author of, most recently, Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Editor's Introduction. Rereading Reading Capital  1
Part I. Reading Reading Capital
1. The Althusserian Definition of "Theory" / Alain Badiou  21
2. Rereading the Symptomatic Reading / Robert J. C. Young  35
3. Translation and Event: Rereading Reading Capital / Emily Apter  49
4. To Have Done with Alienation: or, How to Orient Oneself in Ideology /
Knox Peden  70
Part II. Reading Capital in Context
5. A Point of Heresy n Western Marxism: Althusser's and Tronti's Antithetic
Readings of Captial in the Early 1960s / Étienne Balibar  93
6. Reading Capital from the Margins: Notes on the Logic of Uneven
Development / Bruno Bosteels  113
7. "To Shatter All the Classical Theories of Causality": Immanent and
Absent Causes in Althusser and Lacan (1963–1965) / Warren Montag  166
8. Marx's Bones: Breaking with Althusser / Adrian Johnston  189
Part III. Reading Capital Today
9. Reading Social Reproduction into Reading Capital / Nina Power  219
10. Value as Symptom / Nick Nesbitt  229
11. Vive la Crise! / Fernanda Navarro  280
Bibliography  293
Contributors  307
Index  311