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Marx's Inferno

By Roberts, William Clare

Marx's Inferno

By Roberts, William Clare

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
304
Release Date:
2018-03-13
Publication Date:
2018-03-13
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0691180814
ISBN13:
9780691180816
Minimum Reading Age:
2
Maximum Reading Age:
4
Weight:
485 g
Height:
154 cm
Width:
236 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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