Contemporary History of Marxs Capital - The Inexhaustible and the Unfinished

Paolo Favilli provides both students and scholars with an original reading of themes and issues found in Karl Marx's Das Kapital and its connections with present-day challenges. Favilli employs a didactic approach stimulating student engagement and learning opportunities in the classroom.

List of contents

Foreword. 1. For an Introduction. The Sense of a 'Contemporary History' Course Reflecting on Karl Marx's Capital 2. Capital as a 'material' object 3. Capital and its Economic Knowledge 4. The Non-Economic (?) Knowledges of Capital 5. History: A Further 'Non-Economic Knowledge' in Capital? 6. Our Everyday Alienation and Surplus Value 7. For a Conclusion. Capital, Capitalism, And Contemporary History

About the author

Paolo Favilli is retired Professor of Contemporary History and Theory of Historical Research at Genoa University, Italy, where he is also former Director of the Department of Humanistic Studies. His main research focus is the history of Marxism, to which he has devoted numerous essays and volumes, including Il socialismo italiano e la teoria economica di Marx (1892-1902) (1980), Herausgabe und Verbreitung del Werke von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels in Italien (1988), Storia del marxismo italiano. Dalle origini alla grande guerra (1996), Marxismo e storia. Saggio sull'innovazione storiografica in Italia (2006), Il marxismo e le sue storie (2016) and A proposito de 'Il capitale'..., Il lungo presente e I miei studenti. Corso di storia contemporanea (2021).

Product details

• Authors: Paolo Favilli, Favilli Paolo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032958163
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3295816-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Marx and Marxisms
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Capitalism, Economic history, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Economic theory & philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political Economy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Political science and theory, Marxism & Communism, Economic theory and philosophy