{"product_id":"capital-as-literature","title":"Capital as Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eStudies of Marx, particularly of his masterwork \u003ci\u003eCapital \u003c\/i\u003e(1867), are as a rule tutelary—they attempt to explain him. Even literary readers of Marx, from Raymond Williams to Fredric Jameson, seek to secure Marxist tenets by means of Marxian style. ‘\u003ci\u003eCapital’\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eas Literature: Marx Against Himself\u003c\/i\u003e departs from this tradition by reading \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e as literary in its own right rather than as political economy with style as its filigree rather than its focus. Here, Marx emerges in a different light. If literature is writing that calls whatever is settled into question, then Marx's writing is literature, not because of its revolutionary program, but because Marx's rhetoric, particularly its key trope of chiasmus, undoes the coherence of the notions it propounds, especially in \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e. Marx's chiasmatic style turns \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e into a \u003ci\u003emise en abyme\u003c\/i\u003e and Marx's enterprise into an example of what it describes rather than its foil or antidote: the structure of capital itself. \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e, like capital, is a self-begetting production machine whose fungibility as a form is one and the same with the money economy it unravels. ‘\u003ci\u003eCapital’\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eas Literature: Marx Against Himself\u003c\/i\u003e shows how this irony unfolds and what the implications are for epistemology, cultural studies, and literary criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56190799839576,"sku":"9781041173939","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781041173939_5492a2f0-f386-4152-b1ee-71631bd99478.jpg?v=1778911287","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/capital-as-literature","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}