Re-reading Marx New Perspectives after the Critical Edition

by Bellofiore, Riccardo; Fineschi, Roberto

• ISBN13: 9780230202115
• ISBN10: 023020211X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Assesses the relevance of the historical and critical edition and includes analysis, by leading scholars, of specific themes in the Marxian critique of political economy.

Author Biography

RICCARDO BELLOFIORE is Professor of Economics at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He has edited Marxian Economics: A Reappraisal, Global Money, Capital Restructuring and the Changing Patterns of Labour,  two volumes on Hyman Minskys economics (with Piero Ferri) Financial Keynesianism and Market Instability and Financial Fragility and Investment in the Capitalist Economy and The Constitution of Capital: Essays on Volume I of Marxs Capital (with Nicola Tayor). He is a member of the International Symposium on Marxian Theory.

ROBERTO FINESCHI studied Philosophy and Political Economy in Siena, Berlin and Palermo. He won the Rjazanov-Prize for young scholars for the most valuable research in Marxian Theory. He has published three books: Ripartire da Marx, Marx e Hegel and Un nuovo Marx and several essays in English, French, German, Italian and Japanese. He is editor of a new Italian edition of Capital: Book I, after the new critical edition. He is a member of the editorial board of the Italian Marx and Engels Collected Works and the International Symposium on Marxian Theory.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Notes on the Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
New Perspectives Opened by the Publication of Marx's Manuscripts of Capital, Vol. II	p. 17
Karl Marx's Original Manuscripts in the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA): Another View on Capital	p. 27
Dialectic of the Commodity and Its Exposition: The German Debate in the 1970s - A Personal Survey	p. 50
Reconstruction or Deconstruction? Methodological Controversies about Value and Capital, and New Insights from the Critical Edition	p. 71
The Limits and Uncertainties of Historical Materialism: an Appraisal based on the Text of Grundrisse (Notebooks III, IV and V)	p. 99
The Chapters on Machinery in the 1861-63 Manuscripts	p. 112
The Development of Marx's Theory of the Distribution of Surplus-Value in the Manuscripts of 1861-63	p. 128
The Possessive Spirit of Capital: Subsumption/Inversion/Contradiction	p. 148
The Place of The Results of the Immediate Production Process' in Capital	p. 163
A Ghost Turning into a Vampire: The Concept of Capital and Living Labour	p. 178
From History of Capital to History in Capital	p. 195
Marx's General Rate of Profit Transformation: Methodological and Theoretical Obstacles - an Appraisal based on the 1864-65 Manuscript of Das Kapital III	p. 211
Name Index	p. 231
Subject Index	p. 233
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