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Rethinking the central categories of Marx's work, this study provides a critical analysis of his political and theoretical development. The sweep of the analysis aims to integrate the paradigm of the spatialization of
time with that of the temporalization of space, showing how capital places varied temporalities into hierarchies—valuing certain conceptions of time over others at different points in its history—thereby
constantly producing and reproducing new forms of class struggle. If modern global capitalism is to be opposed effectively, Tomba argues that we must adequately analyze the plurality of temporal layers
that are combined and come into conflict in the violently unifying historical dimension of modernity.
Sommario
Preface
Chapter One: The Historical Materialist
Appendix One: Marx as Historical Materialist. Re-reading the Eighteenth Brumaire
Chapter Two: A New Phenotype
Chapter Three: Capital as Phantasmagoria
Appendix Two: A Contribution to the Historiography of Layers of Time
Bibliography
Index
Info autore
Massimiliano Tomba is Professor of Philosophy of Human Rights at the University of Padua. He has published many books, translations and articles, including Crisis and Critique in Bruno Bauer (2002) and La vera politica. Kant e Benjamin (2006).
Riassunto
Rethinking the central categories of Marx's work, this study provides a critical analysis of his political and theoretical development. By integrating the paradigm of the spatialisation of time with that of the temporalisation of space, Tomba shows that an adequate historiographical paradigm for capitalism must consider the plurality of temporal layers that come into conflict in modernity.
Prefazione
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Promotion to coincide with the annual Historical Materialism conference, which has a growing academic audience (400 graduate students and professors in 2010)
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Testo aggiuntivo
It is [Western Marxism] that commands the full attention of Massimilliano Tomba’s timely and often brilliantly suggestive and informed reading of how Marxism lost its way and failed to account for the changes that Marx introduced in the 1860s and 1870s, producing Capital as a massive conceptualization of capitalism’s system of time accountancy that finds in the world market the instrument to synchronize the multiple temporalities and different forms of exploitation embodied in commodities, in order to secure greater surplus value.
Harry Harootunian, Radical Philosophy
