(P/B) READING CAPITAL

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A landmark of French thought, Reading Capital is no less than an attempt to topple the edifice of Western Marxism and rebuilt it from the original foundations. Establishing a rigorous programme of "symptomatic reading" that cuts through the silences and lacunae of Capital to reveal its philosophical core, Louis Althusser interprets Marx's structural analysis of production as a revolutionary break-the basis of a completely new science. Building on a series of Althussers's conceptual innovations that includes "overdetermination" and "social formation," Etienne Balibar explores the historical and structural facets of production as Marx understood them, scrutinizing many of the most fundamental points in Capital, as though for the first time. (From the publisher)

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Translator's Note
Foreword to the Italian Edition
Part I: From Capital to Marx's Philosophy (Louis Althusser)
Part II: The Object of Capital
(Louis Althusser)
Introduction
Marx and his Discoveries
The Merits of Classical Economics
The Errors of Classical Economics: An Outline for a Concept of Historical Time
Marxism is not a Historicism
The Epistemological Propositions of Capital
(Marx, Engels)
The Object of Political Economy
Marx's Critique
Marx's Immense Theoretical Revolution
Appendix: On the 'Ideal Average' and the Forms of Transition
Part III: The Basic Concepts of Historical Materialism
(Etienne Balibar)
From Periodization to the Modes of Production
The Elements of the Structure and their History
On Reproduction
Elements for a Theory of Transition
Glossary
Index