Opis: Marx After Marx - Harry Harootunian

In Marx After Marx, Harry Harootunian questions the claims of Western Marxism and its presumption of the final completion of capitalism. If this shift in Marxism reflected the recognition that the expected revolutions were not forthcoming in the years before World War II, its Cold War afterlife helped to both unify the West in its struggle with the Soviet Union and bolster the belief that capitalism remained dominant in the contest over progress. This book deprovincializes Marx and the West's cultural turn by returning to the theorist's earlier explanations of capital's origins and development, which followed a trajectory beyond Euro-America to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Marx's expansive view shows how local circumstances, time, and culture intervened to reshape capital's system of production in these regions. His outline of a diversified global capitalism was much more robust than was his sketch of the English experience in Capital and helps explain the disparate routes that evolved during the twentieth century. Engaging with the texts of Lenin, Luxemburg, Gramsci, and other pivotal theorists, Harootunian strips contemporary Marxism of its cultural preoccupation by reasserting the deep relevance of history. Harootunian's reading of Marx, in particular, is a revelation and should put to rest the facile assumption that Marx's conception of the historical is reducible to the banalities of modernization theory. Marx After Marx is a provocative and important intervention in a critical conjuncture by a major scholar. -- William Haver, translator of Nishida Kitaro 's Ontology of Production: Three Essays This is a landmark study within Marxist thought. Drawing largely on Marx's later works for its conceptual tools and theoretical method, Marx After Marx analyzes how different regions under differing circumstances cast a plurality of developmental forms all under the general code of capitalist accumulation. -- Michael Dutton, author of Policing Chinese Politics: A History Harry Harootunian is singularly qualified to give us a Marxism adequate to the conditions of a genuine 'world' (as against a Hegelian 'universalist') history in a global age. The Marx who emerges from this book is a nuanced, empirical, and genuinely historical thinker instead of the pseudo-scientific 'philosopher of history' met with in textbook accounts of Western Marxism. -- Hayden White, University of California, Santa CruzAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Deprovincializing Marx1. Marx, Time, History2. Marxism's Eastward Migration3. Opening to the Global South4. Theorizing Late Development and the "Persistence of Feudal Remnants": Wang Yanan, Yamada Moritaro, and Uno Kozo5. Colonial/PostcolonialAfterword: World History and the EverydayNotesIndex

Szczegóły: Marx After Marx - Harry Harootunian

Tytuł: Marx After Marx
Autor: Harry Harootunian
Producent: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231174800
Rok produkcji: 2015
Ilość stron: 312
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.45 kg

Recenzje: Marx After Marx - Harry Harootunian