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Marx and Le Capital: Evaluation, History, Reception book cover

1st Edition

Marx and Le Capital Evaluation, History, Reception

Edited By Marcello Musto Copyright 2023
286 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Over the past few years, Marx’s Capital has received renewed academic and popular attention. This volume is dedicated to the history of the making, the theoretical evaluation, and the analysis of the dissemination and reception of an almost unknown version of Capital : the French translation, published between 1872 and 1875, to which Marx participated directly. In revising this version, Marx... Read more

1. Introduction (Marcello Musto)

Part I: The Value of Le Capital

2.  Marx's ‘Capital’ after the Paris Commune: The Falling Rate of Employment and the Fate of the Working Class
     (David Norman Smith)

3. Marx’s French Edition of ‘Capital’ as Unexplored Territory: From the Centralisation of Capital to Societies
    Beyond Western Europe (Kevin B. Anderson)

4. The French Edition of ‘Capital’ and the Question of Colonialism (Jean-Numa Ducange)

5. Engels and ‘Le Capital’: The Politics of the Fourth Edition of ‘Das Kapital’ (1890) (Terrell Carver)

Part II: The Making of Le Capital

6. ‘Le Capital’: A Transnational, Family, and Personal Endeavour (Kenneth Hemmerechts and Nohemi 
     Jocabeth Echeverria Vicente)

7. From Moscow to Paris: The Russian Roots of the First French Translation of Marx’s ‘Capital’ (Guillaume    
    Fondu)

8. Reading ‘Le Capital’: Marx as a Translator (Paul Reitter)

9. An Unfinished Project: Marx’s Last Words on ‘Capital’ (Michael R. Krätke)

Part III: The Dissemination and the Reception of Le Capital

10. The Contradictory Reception of the French Edition of ‘Capital’ (Jean-Numa Ducange and Jean Quétier)

11. A Tale of Two Translations: A Comparison of the Roy-Marx and Lefebvre Translations of ‘Capital’, Volume I
      (Alix Bouffard and Alexandre Feron)

12. The French Edition of ‘Capital’ in Germany, France, Anglophone Countries, and Japan (Babak Amini)

Part IV: Letters on Le Capital

13. Selected Correspondence on the French Translation of ‘Capital’, Karl Marx, Maurice Lachâtre, Just
      Vernouillet, and Friedrich Engels (Introduced, edited, and translated by Patrick Camiller)

Biography

Marcello Musto is Professor of Sociology at York University, Canada.

Assembling a new generation of interpreters and established scholars, Marcello Musto offers us a profoundly new vision of Marx’s critique of political economy, showing how much the anti-colonial and universal dimension of Capital – that is becoming widely recognized nowadays – owes to its French translation.

Jacques Bidet, author of　Exploring Marx's Capital.

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