On the Nature of Marx''s Things - Translation As Necrophilology

On the Nature of Marx's Things traces to Marx's earliest writings a Lucretian practice that Lezra calls necrophilological translation.

List of contents

Foreword: Encounter and Translation by Vittorio Morfino

Introduction

I. Necrophilologies

1. On the Nature of Marx's Things

2. Capital, catastrophe: Marx's "Dynamic objects"

3. Necrophilology

II. Mediation

4. The Primal Scenes of Political Theology

5. Adorno and the Humanist Dialectic

6. Uncountable Matters

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Jacques Lezra is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of California-Riverside. His publications include Lucretius and Modernity (co-edited with Liza Blake, Palgrave, 2016) and Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic (Fordham UP, 2010).

Summary

On the Nature of Marx’s Things traces to Marx’s earliest writings a Lucretian practice that Lezra calls necrophilological translation.

Product details

• Authors: Jacques Lezra
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780823279432
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-7943-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Lit Z; Lit Z
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries