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This book attempts to reveal Karl Marx's philosophical critique of the social being in capitalist societies from the text of Capital. Marxists' different understandings of Capital in different historical periods reveal the rich meaning of Capital, which plays an important role in promoting Marxian philosophy. These different modes of interpretation also mean that the understanding of Capital is endless, because re-reading of Capital will always open up a new realm for the interpretation of Marxian philosophy. Since the financial crisis in 2008, Capital has once again become a hot topic in academic fields. However, in these new interpretations, there is no fundamental breakthrough in the illustration of Marx's thought, because some either stick to the discussions in pure economic fields, some the revision of Marx's manuscripts from the perspective of literature compilation, others the role of Engels' edition. The popularity of Capital mainly stays in a certain emotion and in the internal requirements of critical reflection on capitalist society.
List of contents
Preface.- Historical Materialism in the Critique of Political Economy.- The Two-fold Logic of Historical Materialism.- The Two-fold Logic of Historical Materialism at Present Time.- Commodity as Philosophical Concept.- Philosophy Rethinking on Use Value.- The Fetishism of Commodity.- What Does It Mean When Labour Becomes Commodity.- The Opposition Between Critique Sketch of Political Economy and Capital.- Capital Logic and The Time Plan.- Capital Logic and The Space Plan.- Philosophical Thinking of the Division of Labor.- Structure of Machine, Technology and Capital Logic.- Capital Logic and Subject.
About the author
Haifeng Yang was born in 1969. He is a tenured professor of Peking University, department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. His research interests are: Marxist philosophy, foreign Marxist philosophy, Marx and Western thought. He has published books such as "The Mirror of Signs -- a Textual Interpretation of Baudrillard's Early Thoughts", "The Critique of Metaphysics -- the Contemporary Interpretation for the Theoretical Premise of Marxist Philosophy", "Practical Philosophy and Hegemony -- Gramsci Philosophy in Contemporary Context", "The Logic of Western Marxism".
