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Book SynopsisThe contributors to
The Concept in Crisis—who include Alain Badiou, Étienne Balibar, Emily Apter, Warren Montag, and Bruno Bosteels—reconsider the landmark 1965 work
Reading Capital and renew its call for a symptomatic critique of capitalism and culture for the twenty-first century.
Trade Review"The Concept in Crisis is an excellent collection of articles on
Reading Capital and other texts by Althusser. The articles do a great job of opening up new fields of enquiry in Althusser’s writings and reinvent Althusser for the contemporary conjuncture. Each article is written in very clear language and provides enough context to be accessible to the non-specialist." -- Fabian Van Onzen * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Editor's Introduction. Rereading
Reading Capital 1
Part I. Reading
Reading Capital 1. The Althusserian Definition of "Theory" / Alain Badiou 21
2. Rereading the Symptomatic Reading / Robert J. C. Young 35
3. Translation and Event: Rereading
Reading Capital / Emily Apter 49
4. To Have Done with Alienation: or, How to Orient Oneself in Ideology / Knox Peden 70
Part II.
Reading Capital in Context
5. A Point of Heresy n Western Marxism: Althusser's and Tronti's Antithetic Readings of
Captial in the Early 1960s / Étienne Balibar 93
6. Reading
Capital from the Margins: Notes on the Logic of Uneven Development / Bruno Bosteels 113
7. "To Shatter All the Classical Theories of Causality": Immanent and Absent Causes in Althusser and Lacan (1963–1965) / Warren Montag 166
8. Marx's Bones: Breaking with Althusser / Adrian Johnston 189
Part III.
Reading Capital Today
9. Reading Social Reproduction into
Reading Capital / Nina Power 219
10. Value as Symptom / Nick Nesbitt 229
11. Vive la Crise! / Fernanda Navarro 280
Bibliography 293
Contributors 307
Index 311
