1st Edition

Towards An Unknown Marx A Commentary on the Manuscripts of 1861-63

By Enrique Dussel Copyright 2001
316 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

This book is the first complete commentary on Marx's manuscripts of 1861-63, works that guide our understanding of fundamental concepts such as 'surplus-value' and 'production price'. The recent publication of Marx's writings in their entirety has been a seminal event in Marxian scholarship. The hitherto unknown second draft of Volume 1 and first draft of Volume 3 of Capital , both published... Read more

Part I: The Central Notebooks of 'Chapter III': The Production Process of Capital  1. Money Becomes Capital: From Exteriority to Totality  2. Absolute Surplus-Value  3. Relative Surplus Value  Part II: Critical Confrontation of the Entire Categorical System  4. Critical Confrontation with Steuart and the Physiocrats  5. Adam Smith's Perplexities  6. Productive Labour  7. The Theory of Rent  8. Surplus Value, Profit, Accumulation and Crisis in Ricardo  9. The Fetishism of Vulgar and Apologetic Economics  Part III: New Discoveries  10. Towards ‘Chapter II’ and ‘Chapter III’  11. New Precisions for ‘Chapter I’  Part IV: The New Transition  12. The Manuscripts of 1861-63 and the Philosophy of Liberation  13. The Manuscripts of 1861-63 and the ‘Concept’ of Dependency

Biography

Enrique Dussel is Professor of Philosophy, Universidád Metropolitana - Iztapalapa, México. He has written over 40 books in Spanish, a number of which have been translated into Englih, German, French and Italian, including The Philosophy of Liberation, Ethics and Community, and The Underside of Modernity.
Fred Mosely is Professor of Economics, Mount Holyoke College (Mass, USA) and is a highly regarded specialist on Marxian economics. He has written or edited six books, including The Falling Rate of Profit in the Postwar United States Economy (1992), Marx's Methods in 'Captial': A Reexamination (1993), and Heterodox Economics Theories: True or False? (1995).