Representing Capital: A Reading Of Volume One

by Fredric Jameson

Overview

Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson’s first book-length engagement with Marx’s magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx’s thought as if it were a musical score. The textual landscape that emerges is the setting for paradoxes and contradictions that struggle toward resolution, giving rise to new antinomies and a new forward movement. These immense segments overlap each other to combine and develop on new levels in the same way that capital itself does, stumbling against obstacles that it overcomes by progressive expansions, which are in themselves so many leaps into the unknown.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781682111
Publisher:	Verso Books
Publication date:	01/07/2014
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; The Cultural Turn; A Singular Modernity; The Modernist Papers; Archaeologies of the Future; Brecht and Method; Ideologies of Theory; Valences of the Dialectic; and The Hegel Variations.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 The Play of Categories 11

2 The Unity of Opposites 47

3 History as Coda 73

4 Capital in Its Time 93

5 Capital in Its Space 109

6 Capital and the Dialectic 127

7 Political Conclusions 139

Index 153

Editorial Reviews

"This book is both an introduction to and an intervention in the history of Marxism … one is glad he has written it, because it remains the case that no one in the academy has quite the same energy as Fredric Jameson, and that no one writes books with sentences quite as forceful as these."—Monthly Review

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