{"product_id":"contemporary-history-of-marx-s-capital","title":"Contemporary History of Marx’s Capital","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaolo Favilli provides both students and scholars with an original reading of themes and issues found in Karl Marx’s \u003ci\u003eDas Kapital \u003c\/i\u003eand its connections with present- day challenges. By way of continuous cross- referencing between present and past, Favilli demonstrates that claims regarding the scientific status of \u003ci\u003eDas Kapital\u003c\/i\u003e, advanced by countless texts since its original publication, are themselves deeply imbued by the ‘spirit of the times’. If in 1963 Jean-Paul Sartre could write that Marxism was the unsurpassable philosophical horizon of our times, what could make an undergraduate student today consider such a claim plausible?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInformed by the latest research on Marxist theory and decades of teaching the Philosophy of History, Favilli employs a didactic approach stimulating student engagement and learning opportunities in the classroom. This approach allows for a better understanding of relationship between the present and the multiple temporalities that characterise and periodise the contemporary era. What follows is a critique of the contemporary academy for its hangover of post-1989 nuovismo (cult of novelty) and inability to make the proper distinctions between Marxism-as-party-state, the works of Karl Marx, and Marxism as an object of history. This led to the spectacle where after 1989, those who had spent most of their careers as Marxist-hued scholars not only abandoned this identity but also spurned any recognition that Marx and Marxism were worthwhile objects of enquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book was first published in Italian as \u003ci\u003eA proposito de ‘Il capitale’..., Il lungo presente e i miei studenti. Corso di storia contemporanea \u003c\/i\u003e(Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2021). This English translation includes a new foreword by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54630246515032,"sku":"9781032958163","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032958163_e6121e69-6d69-43a2-9a22-2881895a4e70.jpg?v=1768360547","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/contemporary-history-of-marx-s-capital","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}