Starosta, Guido (2015), Marx’s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity. Brill.

Starosta, Guido

Marx’s Capital, Method y Revolutionary Subjectivity

Brill, Leiden, 2015.

ISBN: 978-90-04-30647-9

TABLE OF CONTENTS

– Acknowledgements

– Introduction: On the Current State of Revolutionary Theory

– Part I. Marx’s Early Critique of Political Economy: The Discovery of the Revolutionary Subject and the Development of Science as Practical Criticism

1. The Dialectic of Alienated Labour and the Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Paris Manuscripts
2. The Overcoming of Philosophy and the Development of a Materialist Science
3. Marx on Proudhon: The Critique of Dialectical Logic and the Political Determination of Science as Practical Criticism

– Part II. Dialectical Knowledge in Motion: Revolutionary Subjectivity in Marx’s Mature Critique of Political Economy

4. The Commodity Form and the Dialectical Method
5. The Role and Place of Commodity Fetishism in Marx’s Dialectical Exposition in Capital
6. The Commodity Form, Subjectivity and the Practical Nature of Defetishising Critique
7. Capital Accumulation and Class Struggle: On the Content and Form of Social Reproduction in Its Alienated Form
8. Real Subsumption and the Genesis of the Revolutionary Subject
9. By Way of a Conclusion: Further Explorations into the Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity

– Bibliography
– Index

SUMMARY

In Marx´s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity, Guido Starosta develops a materialist inquiry into the social and historical determinations of revolutionary subjectivity. Through a methodologically-minded critical reconstruction of the Marxian critique of political economy, from the early writings up to the Grundrisse and Capital, this study shows that the outcome of the historical movement of the objectified form of social mediation, which has turned into the very alienated subject of social life (i.e., capital), is to develop, as its own immanent determination, the constitution of the (self-abolishing) working class as a revolutionary subject. A crucial element in this intellectual endeavour is the focus on the intrinsic connection between the specifically dialectical form of social science and its radical transformative content.

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