Reading Marx Writing: Melodrama, the Market, and the ‘Grundrisse’
By Thomas M. Kemple.
Description
Employing the insights of recent cultural critics, Reading Marx Writing uses the eight notebooks (the Grundrisse) Marx worked on in 1857-58 to examine his literary, political, and scientific imagination and the fictional writers he admired. By exploring the Grundrisse, the project or plan that Marx did not carry through, the author speculates on the limits and possibilities of Marx's interpretive approach for addressing current issues in philosophy and hermeneutics, critical sociology and political economy, and aesthetics and literary criticism.The study employs certain literary works ...
ISBN(s)
0804724083, 9780804724081