Exploring Marx's Capital

by Bidet, Jacques; Fernbach, David; Callinicos, Alex

• ISBN13: 9789004149373
• ISBN10: 9004149376
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-15
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

This volume, originally published in French, offers a new interpretation of Marx's great work. By exploring the work as a step in a process of theoretical development, Jacques Bidet re-assesses Marx's system in its set of constitutive categories, seeking

Author Biography

Jacques Bidet is Professor at the University of Paris-X, holding the chair of Political Philosophy and Theories of Society.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the English Translation of Jacques Bidet's Que faire du 'Capital'?	p. ix
Author's Preface to the English Edition	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Preliminary Methodological Remarks	p. 5
Pathways: 1857 to 1875	p. 5
The history of science perspective	p. 8
The perspective of reconstruction of the system	p. 9
Value as Quantity	p. 11
Constructing a homogeneous economic space: a Marxian project that breaks with political economy	p. 12
Paralogisms of Marx the measurer	p. 14
Capital: the categories of measurement undermine the theorisation of the substance to be measured	p. 16
In what sense does more productive labour produce more value? The articulation of structure and dynamic	p. 20
Skilled labour as a zone of paralogism	p. 21
Intensity: closure and fracture of the quantitative space	p. 30
Conclusion	p. 35
Value as Sociopolitical Concept	p. 37
Value as expenditure	p. 38
'Transformation of expenditure into consumption of labour-power'	p. 45
Money and labour-value constitute one and the same point of rupture between Marx and Ricardo	p. 52
Value and capital as semi-concepts	p. 56
Value and socialisation of labour: Marx's inconsistent socialism	p. 62
Labour-value and the state	p. 67
Conclusion	p. 70
Value and Price of Labour-Power	p. 74
A non-normative problematic of the norm	p. 77
Movements of value and movements of price	p. 84
The non-functionalist character of the system: its 'openness'	p. 91
A hierarchy of values of labour-power?	p. 94
Conclusion	p. 99
Relations of Production and Class Relations	p. 103
Productive and unproductive labour	p. 104
Production and social classes	p. 123
Conclusion	p. 129
The Start of the Exposition and Its Development	p. 132
The question of the initial moment of Capital	p. 133
The 'transition to capital'	p. 153
Conclusion	p. 166
The Method of Exposition and the Hegelian Heritage	p. 169
On the method of exposition of Capital	p. 170
Hegel, an epistemological support/obstacle	p. 183
Conclusion	p. 193
The Theorisation of the Ideological in Capital	p. 196
The place of everyday consciousness: Volume 3	p. 197
The uncertainties in Marx's exposition	p. 209
The 'raisons d'etre' of the form of appearance (in Volume One)	p. 217
Conclusion	p. 228
The Theory of the Value-Form	p. 231
Why the historical or logico-historical interpretation cannot be relevant	p. 232
The notion of form or expression of value, as distinct from the notion of relative value	p. 235
Epistemological history of Chapter 1, Section 3	p. 244
What dialectic of the form of value?	p. 250
The expression of value 'in use-value'	p. 255
Fetishism, a structural category of the ideology of commodity production	p. 260
Conclusion	p. 269
The Economy in General and Historical Materialism	p. 272
The various generalities that Capital presupposes	p. 273
Labour-value in pure economics and in historical materialism	p. 288
Conclusion	p. 304
General Conclusions	p. 307
References	p. 319
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