Nesbitt The Concept in Crisis

Reading Capital Today
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7290-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

The contributors to The Concept in Crisis—who include Alain Badiou, Étienne Balibar, Emily Apter, Warren Montag, and Bruno Bosteels—reconsider the landmark 1965 work Reading Capital and renew its call for a symptomatic critique of capitalism and culture for the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nesbitt, Nick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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