{"product_id":"reading-marx-writing-melodrama-the-market-and-the-grundrisse-melodrama-the-market-and-the-grundrisse-melodrama-the-market-and-the-grundrisse-9780804724081","title":"Reading Marx Writing Melodrama the Market and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume uses the eight notebooks \"the Grundrisse\" Karl Marx worked on in 1857-58 to examine his literary, political, and scientific imagination. The author speculates on the limits and possibilities of Marx's interpretive approach for addressing current issues in philosophy and hermeneutics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A brilliant reading of Marx as a writer and theorist ... Without belittling Marx’s importance and intentions as a social theorist, Kemple reads him as a writer, composing his work amid the conceptual, structural, and economic conditions of his age. The book is a masterpiece in bridging the discourses of social and critical theories and literature.”—Henry Sussman, SUNY, Buffalo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForword: ruptures in reason  Part 1... Faust's Study: 1. Science, technology, and the song of the cellar rat  Part 2 ... Marx's Desk: 2. Marx reading: on the humanist concept of essence  3. Reading Marx: on the alien character of revolution  Part III ... Balzac's Pact: 4. The pyramid of sacrifice: Marx's unknown masterpiece and the problem of realism  5. The ledger: Marxian science fiction in the critique of political economy  6. the black Madonna: speculations on aesthetics and (post)Marxism  Appendices.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405493313879,"sku":"9780804724081","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804724081.jpg?v=1730491876","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-marx-writing-melodrama-the-market-and-the-grundrisse-melodrama-the-market-and-the-grundrisse-melodrama-the-market-and-the-grundrisse-9780804724081","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}