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Value in Marx: The Persistence of Value in a More-Than-Capitalist World

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Description for Value in Marx: The Persistence of Value in a More-Than-Capitalist World Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.


Long prone to dogmatic disagreement, the question of value in Marx’s thought—what value is, the purpose it serves, its application to real-world capitalism—requires renewal if Marx’s work is to remain vibrant. In Value in Marx, George Henderson offers a lucid rereading of Marx that strips value of its turgid theoretical reduction and reframes it as an investigation into the tensions between social relations and forms as they are rather than as what they could otherwise become.


Drawing on Marx’s Capital and Grundrisse, Henderson shows how these volumes do not harbor a single theory of value that equates value to ... Read more


Can these limits be confronted in a creative, even joyful, way? Can they become aspects of what we desire, rather than being silenced and denied? As long as we persist in interpreting value broadly, following it as an active and not a shut-down, predetermined feature of Marx’s texts, Henderson ultimately views Marx as responding positively to these challenges and employing value as a powerful tool of the political imaginary.


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Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
271g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816680962
SKU
V9780816680962
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About George Henderson
George Henderson is associate professor of geography at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of California and the Fictions of Capital and coeditor of Geographic Thought: A Praxis Perspective.

Reviews for Value in Marx: The Persistence of Value in a More-Than-Capitalist World
"Marx’s writings have inspired an extraordinary corpus of writing designed to understand and change capitalism. However, while many have tried to wear his boots, few have journeyed in genuinely new directions while holding Marx’s compass. Henderson here finds contemporary value in Marx’s writings in ways both faithful and surprising." —Noel Castree, Manchester University "Value in Marx offers a truly original reading—itself ... Read more

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