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Marx After Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism
Harry Harootunian
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Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JPA; JPFC; JPQB; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
In Marx After Marx, Harry Harootunian questions the claims of Western Marxism and its presumption of the final completion of capitalism. If this shift in Marxism reflected the recognition that the expected revolutions were not forthcoming in the years before World War II, its Cold War afterlife helped to both unify the West in its struggle with the Soviet Union and bolster the belief that capitalism remained dominant in the contest over progress. This book deprovincializes Marx and the West's cultural turn by returning to the theorist's earlier explanations of capital's origins and development, which followed a trajectory beyond Euro-America ... Read more
In Marx After Marx, Harry Harootunian questions the claims of Western Marxism and its presumption of the final completion of capitalism. If this shift in Marxism reflected the recognition that the expected revolutions were not forthcoming in the years before World War II, its Cold War afterlife helped to both unify the West in its struggle with the Soviet Union and bolster the belief that capitalism remained dominant in the contest over progress. This book deprovincializes Marx and the West's cultural turn by returning to the theorist's earlier explanations of capital's origins and development, which followed a trajectory beyond Euro-America ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231174817
SKU
V9780231174817
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About Harry Harootunian
Harry Harootunian spent most of his career teaching history and East Asian studies at the University of Chicago, where he is Max Palevsky Professor of History Emeritus. He is now adjunct senior research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, where he teaches a graduate course. He has published on various periods of Japan's intellectual and cultural history ... Read more
Reviews for Marx After Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism
This is a landmark study within Marxist thought. Drawing largely on Marx's later works for its conceptual tools and theoretical method, Marx After Marx analyzes how different regions under differing circumstances cast a plurality of developmental forms all under the general code of capitalist accumulation.
Michael Dutton, author of Policing Chinese Politics: A History Harry Harootunian is singularly qualified ... Read more
Michael Dutton, author of Policing Chinese Politics: A History Harry Harootunian is singularly qualified ... Read more