Reading Capital's Materialist Dialectic: Marx, Spinoza, and the Althusserians - Humanitas
Nick Nesbitt

Reading Capital's Materialist Dialectic: Marx, Spinoza, and the Althusserians

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ISBN: 9789004548688
Author : Nick Nesbitt
Published: 2024
Publisher: BRILL
Number of pages: 308
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Description
While the explicit Althusserian engagement with Marx’s Capital remained largely limited to Reading Capital, after 1968, Nick Nesbitt argues, this theoretical intervention remained insistent, adopting the form of a general theory of materialist dialectic. The book thus analyzes the Althusserianist theory of a materialist dialectic across diverse sites including Althusser’s unpublished archive, Macherey’s exposition of Spinoza’s Ethics, and Badiou’s Logics of Worlds, while simultaneously bringing this fully-developed theory of materialist dialectic to bear anew on the reading of Capital itself, to show that Spinoza's influence on Marx is far greater--and that of Hegel increasingly diminishing--than has been previously thought.

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