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Format: xi, 282 Seiten : , Diagramme.

ISBN: 978-0-691-17290-3

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-4008-8370-7

Language: English

Subjects: Philosophy

Keywords: 1818-1883 Marx, Karl ; Politische Theorie ; 1818-1883 Marx, Karl

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URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 1 online resource : , illustrations (black and white)

ISBN: 9781400883707 (ebook) :

Content: Reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers' movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of political theory. Placing Marx against the background of nineteenth-century socialism, Roberts shows how Capital was ingeniously modeled on Dante's Inferno, and how Marx, playing the role of Virgil for the proletariat, introduced partisans of workers' emancipation to the secret depths of the modern 'social Hell'.

Note: Previously issued in print: 2018.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780691180816

Language: English

URL: Princeton scholarship online

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400883707

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Format: 1 online resource (299 pages)

ISBN: 0-691-18081-4

Content: Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers' movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of political theory. Placing Marx against the background of nineteenth-century socialism, Roberts shows how Capital was ingeniously modeled on Dante's Inferno, and how Marx, playing the role of Virgil for the proletariat, introduced partisans of workers' emancipation to the secret depths of the modern "social Hell." In this manner, Marx revised republican ideas of freedom in response to the rise of capitalism.Combining research on Marx's interlocutors, textual scholarship, and forays into recent debates, Roberts traces the continuities linking Marx's theory of capitalism to the tradition of republican political thought. He immerses the reader in socialist debates about the nature of commerce, the experience of labor, the power of bosses and managers, and the possibilities of political organization. Roberts rescues those debates from the past, and shows how they speak to ever-renewed concerns about political life in today's world.

Note: Previously issued in print: 2018. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , A Note on References and Translations -- , 1. Introduction: Rereading Capital -- , 2. Taenarus: The Road to Hell -- , 3. Styx: The Anarchy of the Market -- , 4. Dis: Capitalist Exploitation as Force Contrary to Nature -- , 5. Malebolge: The Capitalist Mode of Production as Fraud -- , 6. Cocytus: Treachery and the Necessity of Expropriation -- , 7. Conclusion: Purgatory, or the Social Republic -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-691-17290-0

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4008-8370-9

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781400883707