{"product_id":"the-concept-in-crisis-9780822369073","title":"The Concept in Crisis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors to \u003ci\u003eThe Concept in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e—who include Alain Badiou, Étienne Balibar, Emily Apter, Warren Montag, and Bruno Bosteels—reconsider the landmark 1965 work \u003ci\u003eReading Capital\u003c\/i\u003e and renew its call for a symptomatic critique of capitalism and culture for the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Concept in Crisis \u003c\/i\u003eis an excellent collection of articles on \u003ci\u003eReading Capital\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u0026amp; Philosophy Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Editor's Introduction. Rereading \u003ci\u003eReading Capital\u003c\/i\u003e  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Reading \u003ci\u003eReading Capital\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Althusserian Definition of \"Theory\" \/ Alain Badiou  21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Rereading the Symptomatic Reading \/ Robert J. C. Young  35\u003cbr\u003e 3. Translation and Event: Rereading \u003ci\u003eReading Capital\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Emily Apter  49\u003cbr\u003e 4. To Have Done with Alienation: or, How to Orient Oneself in Ideology \/ Knox Peden  70\u003cbr\u003e Part II. \u003ci\u003eReading Capital\u003c\/i\u003e in Context\u003cbr\u003e 5. A Point of Heresy n Western Marxism: Althusser's and Tronti's Antithetic Readings of \u003ci\u003eCaptial\u003c\/i\u003e in the Early 1960s \/ Étienne Balibar  93\u003cbr\u003e 6. Reading \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e from the Margins: Notes on the Logic of Uneven Development \/ Bruno Bosteels  113\u003cbr\u003e 7. \"To Shatter All the Classical Theories of Causality\": Immanent and Absent Causes in Althusser and Lacan (1963–1965) \/ Warren Montag  166\u003cbr\u003e 8. Marx's Bones: Breaking with Althusser \/ Adrian Johnston  189\u003cbr\u003e Part III. \u003ci\u003eReading Capital\u003c\/i\u003e Today\u003cbr\u003e 9. Reading Social Reproduction into \u003ci\u003eReading Capital\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Nina Power  219\u003cbr\u003e 10. Value as Symptom \/ Nick Nesbitt  229\u003cbr\u003e 11. Vive la Crise! \/ Fernanda Navarro  280\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  293\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  307\u003cbr\u003e Index  311","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406104961367,"sku":"9780822369073","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822369073.jpg?v=1730494545","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-concept-in-crisis-9780822369073","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}