Marx After Marx (eBook)

History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism

Harry Harootunian (Autor)

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2015
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
9780231540131 (ISBN)

Infos

Revisiting Marx’s seminal conception of capital and production to better critique our diverse global economies.

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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 to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Marx's expansive view shows how local circumstances, time, and culture intervened to reshape capital's system of production in these regions. His outline of a diversified global capitalism was much more robust than was his sketch of the English experience in Capital and helps explain the disparate routes that evolved during the twentieth century. Engaging with the texts of Lenin, Luxemburg, Gramsci, and other pivotal theorists, Harootunian strips contemporary Marxism of its cultural preoccupation by reasserting the deep relevance of history.

Autor

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 and on questions of Marxism and historical writing. He is also the author of History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life and Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Deprovincializing Marx1. Marx, Time, History2. Marxism's Eastward Migration3. Opening to the Global South4. Theorizing Late Development and the "Persistence of Feudal Remnants": Wang Yanan, Yamada Moritarō, and Uno Kōzō5. Colonial/PostcolonialAfterword: World History and the EverydayNotesIndex

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.10.2015
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
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• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
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• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
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• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• ISBN-13: 9780231540131 / 9780231540131