Representing capital
Subtitle: a commentary on volume one
By: Fredric Jameson
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781781681572
Subjects: Marxian economics; Capital; Capitalism
Other titles: Representing capital :; Kapital.
Description: Representing Capital, Fredric Jamesonʹs first book-length engagement with Marxʹs magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marxʹs 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. Marxʹs fundamental concepts are not presented philosophically, or in social-scientific terms, but rather as a series of figures produced by the development of the text. Jameson grasps Marxʹs work as a representational problem and an experiment in constructing the figure or model of the inexpressible phenomenon that is capital. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Cover title : Representing capital, a reading of volume one

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The play of categories; title: The unity of opposites; title: History as coda; title: Capital in its time; title: Capital in its space; title: Capital and the dialectic; title: Political conclusions.