BRILL 2012 hardcover No DJ as issued, in shrinkwrap No dust jacket. Very Good hardcover with light shelfwear-NICE! Standard-sized.

ISBN10: 9004236783, ISBN13: 9789004236783, [publisher: Brill] Hardcover Hardcover, xv + 206 pages, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright throughout, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- The book rethinks the central categories of Marx's work beyond any philosophy of history, providing a critical analysis of his political and theoretical development from his early writings, to the elaboration of the critique of political economy and his final anthropological studies on pre-individualistic and communist forms. The study aims to integrate the paradigm of the spatialisation of time with that of the temporalisation of space, showing how capital places diverse temporalities into hierarchies that incessantly produce and reproduce new forms of class struggle. An adequate historiographical paradigm for globalised capitalism has to consider the plurality of temporal layers that are combined and come into conflict in the violently unifying historical dimension of modernity. -- Contents: Preface; 1. Historical Materialist [Historical experience: rupture and continuity; Historical temporalities; Katechonic figure; Gigantographies of the crisis; Figure of the historical materialist; Social revolution; Phases and counterphases of the revolution; Re-reading the Terror]; Appendix: Political Historiography: Re-Reading the Eighteenth Brumaire [Freeing history from history; Representation of representation; Revolution within ...
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Brill Academic Pub, Date: 2012. Hardcover. New. 240 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. 2012. Brill Academic Pub ISBN 9004236783 9789004236783 [GB]