Reading Capital

Non-Fiction

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About “Reading Capital”

Reading Capital is a 1965 book that analyzes Karl Marx's Capital, written by the French philosopher Louis Althusser and his students Étienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Macherey, and Roger Establet. It was first published in France by François Maspero. An abridged version was released in 1968, and a full English translation was published in 2016. The book offers a theoretical interpretation of Marx's work, focusing on its philosophical and structural elements. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)

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1965

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