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On the Nature of Marx's Things: Translation as Necrophilology (Lit Z) by Jacques Lezra, Vittorio Morfino is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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On the Nature of Marx's Things is a major rethinking of the Marxian tradition, one based not on fixed things but on the inextricable interrelation between the material world and our language for it. Lezra traces to Marx's earliest writings a subterranean, Lucretian practice that he calls necrophilological translation that continues to haunt Marx's inheritors. This Lucretian strain, requiring that we think materiality in non-self-evident ways, as dynamic, aleatory, and always marked by its relation to language, raises central questions about ontology, political economy, and reading. "Lezra," writes Vittorio Morfino in his preface, "transfers all of the power of the Althusserian encounter into his conception of translation." Lezra's expansive understanding of translation covers practices that put different natural and national languages into relation, often across periods, but also practices or mechanisms internal to each language. Obscured by later critical attention to the contradictory lexicons--of fetishism and of chrematistics--that Capital uses to describe how value accrues to commodities, and by the dialectical approach that's framed Marx's work since Engels sought to marry

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Author

Jacques Lezra, Vittorio Morfino

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823279449

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Literary Fiction, Philosophy