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This volume, originally published in French under the title Que faire du Capital?, offers a new interpretation of Marx's great work. It shows how the novelty and lasting interest of Marx's theory arises from the fact that, as against the project of a ‘pure'economics, it is formulated in concepts that have simultaneously an economic and a political aspect, neither of these being separable from the other.Jacques Bidet conducts an unprecedented investigation of Marx's work in the spirit of the history of science, exploring it as a process of theoretical development. Traditional exegesis reads the successive drafts of Capital as if they were complementary and mutually illuminated one another. In actual fact, like any scientist, Marx only wrote a new version in order to correct the previous one. He started from ideas borrowed from Ricardo and Hegel, and between one draft and the next it is possible to see these being eliminated and restructured. This labour, moreover, was never fully completed.The author thus re-assesses Marx's entire system in its set of constitutive categories: value, market, labour-power, classes, working class, exploitation, production, fetishism, ideology. He seeks

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Author

Bidet, Jacques.

Publisher

Brill ; Extenza Turpin [distributor

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004149373

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Economics, Political Science