Marx's Temporalities: Historical Materialism, Volume 44
By (Author) Massimiliano Tomba
Translated by Peter D. Thomas
Translated by Sara R. Farris
Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books
3rd December 2013
United States
General
Non Fiction
335.411
Paperback
208
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
322g
Rethinking the central categories of Marx's work, this study provides a critical analysis of his political and theoretical development. By integrating the paradigm of the spatialisation of time with that of the temporalisation of space, Tomba shows that an adequate historiographical paradigm for capitalism must consider the plurality of temporal layers that come into conflict in modernity.
It is [Western Marxism] that commands the full attention of Massimilliano Tombas timely and often brilliantly suggestive and informed reading of how Marxism lost its way and failed to account for the changes that Marx introduced in the 1860s and 1870s, producing Capital as a massive conceptualization of capitalisms system of time accountancy that finds in the world market the instrument to synchronize the multiple temporalities and different forms of exploitation embodied in commodities, in order to secure greater surplus value. Harry Harootunian, Radical Philosophy
It is [Western Marxism] that commands the full attention of Massimilliano Tombas timely and often brilliantly suggestive and informed reading of how Marxism lost its way and failed to account for the changes that Marx introduced in the 1860s and 1870s, producing Capital as a massive conceptualization of capitalisms system of time accountancy that finds in the world market the instrument to synchronize the multiple temporalities and different forms of exploitation embodied in commodities, in order to secure greater surplus value. Harry Harootunian, Radical Philosophy
Massimiliano Tomba is Professor of Philosophy of Human Rights at the University of Padua. He has published many books, translations and articles, including Crisis and Critique in Bruno Bauer (2002) and La vera politica. Kant e Benjamin (2006).