1st Edition
A Contemporary History of Marx’s Capital The Inexhaustible and the Unfinished
Foreword. 1. For an Introduction: The Sense of a ‘Contemporary History’ Course Reflecting on Karl Marx’s Capital 2. Capital as a ‘Material’ Object 3. Capital and its Economic Knowledge 4. The Non-Economic (?) Knowledges of Capital 5. History: A Further ‘Non-Economic Knowledge’ in Capital? 6. Our Everyday Alienation and Surplus Value. On Alienation 7. For a Conclusion: Capital, Capitalism, and Contemporary History
Biography
Paolo Favilli is retired Professor of Contemporary History and Theory of Historical Research at Genoa University, Italy, where he is also former Director of the Department of Humanistic Studies. His main research focus is the history of Marxism, to which he has devoted numerous essays and volumes, including Il socialismo italiano e la teoria economica di Marx (1892–1902) (1980), Herausgabe und Verbreitung del Werke von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels in Italien (1988), Storia del marxismo italiano. Dalle origini alla grande guerra (1996), Marxismo e storia. Saggio sull’innovazione storiografica in Italia (2006), Il marxismo e le sue storie (2016), and A proposito de ‘Il capitale’..., Il lungo presente e i miei studenti. Corso di storia contemporanea (2021).
