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Marx's Inferno : the political theory of Capital / William Clare Roberts.
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Roberts, William Clare, 1974-
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English
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
©2017
Description
xi, 282 pages ; 25 cm
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HB501.M37 R595 2017
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Capitalism
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Political aspects
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Marx, Karl 1818-1883
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Kapital
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Dante Alighieri 1265-1321
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Inferno
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Summary note
"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. Combining research on Marx's interlocutors, textual scholarship, and forays into recent debates, Roberts traces the continuities linking Marx's theory of capitalism to the tradition of republican political thought. He immerses the reader in socialist debates about the nature of commerce, the experience of labor, the power of bosses and managers, and the possibilities of political organization. Roberts rescues those debates from the past, and shows how they speak to ever-renewed concerns about political life in today's world"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Rereading Capital
Taenarus : the road to Hell
Styx : the anarchy of the market
Dis : capitalist exploitation as force contrary to nature
Malebolge: the capitalist mode of production as fraud
Cocytus: treachery and the necessity of expropriation
Conclusion: Purgatory, or the social republic.
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Political theory of Capital
ISBN
9780691172903 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
0691172900 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
0691180814
9780691180816
LCCN
2016012489
OCLC
947953827
Other standard number
40026835388
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