This edition of Reading Capital differs from the first edition (Lire le Capital, Vols. Find more information about: ISBN: 0902308564 9780902308565 : OCLC Number: 5860468: Language Note: English translation of : 'Lire "Le capital", … As Dave Sherry shows in this accessible history, working class people suffered during WWI, but also began to fight back in the Russian and German revolutions.

The book was influential among intellectuals. Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations.

Reading Capital is a 1965 book about Karl Marx's Das Kapital by the philosophers Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, and Jacques Rancière, the sociologist Roger Establet, and the critic Pierre Macherey. The book was first published in France by François Maspero.

I and II, Maspero, Paris 1965) in several respects. Reading Capital book. Read 24 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Marx's Capital is back where it belongs, at the centre of debate about Marxism and its purchase on the contemporary world. An abridged English translation was published in 1970, and an unabridged translation in 2015. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher, maintained that Marx’s project could only be revived if its scientific and revolutionary novelty was thoroughly divested of all traces of humanism, idealism, Hegelianism and historicism. Reading "Capital" (Verso Classics): Amazon.es: Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, B. Brewster: Libros en idiomas extranjeros Reading "Capital" London : Verso ; New York : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Schocken Books, 1979, ©1970 (OCoLC)988152920: Named Person: Karl Marx: Document Type: Book: All Authors / Contributors: Louis Althusser; Étienne Balibar. Summary. Reading Capital (French: Lire le Capital) is a 1965 book about the philosopher Karl Marx's Das Kapital by the philosophers Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, and Jacques Rancière, the sociologist Roger Establet, and the critic Pierre Macherey. Reading Capital: Althusser, Louis, Balibar, Etienne, Brewster, Ben: 9781844673476: Books - Amazon.ca An abridged English translation was published in 1970, and an unabridged Reading Capital (French: Lire le Capital) is a 1965 book about Karl Marx's Das Kapital by the philosophers Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, and Jacques Rancière, the sociologist Roger Establet, and the critic Pierre Macherey. On the one hand, it is an abridged edition, since we have omitted a number of important contributions (the papers of Rancière, Macherey and Establet) in order to allow the book to be published in a smaller format.