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The Spectre of Capital: Idea and Reality
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 257
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What is money? What is capital? The Spectre of Capital tackles such fundamental questions at a deep philosophical level. It argues that the modern world is ruled by a ‘spectre’, the spectre of capital. This insight is rooted in an original combination of the ideas of Marx and Hegel. It presents the most sophisticated argument to date for ‘the homology thesis’, namely that the order of Hegel’s logical categories, and that of the social forms addressed by Marx’s Capital, share the same architectonic. The systematic-dialectical presentation shows how capital becomes a self-sustaining power.
Christopher J. Arthur studied at the Universities of Nottingham and Oxford. He formerly taught philosophy at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Dialectics of Labour: Marx and his Relation to Hegel (Blackwell, 1986), and of The New Dialectic and Marx’s Capital (Brill, 2002).
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Capital and Social Form
2 Capital and the Actuality of the Ideal
3 Systematic Dialectic
4 The Two Dialectics of Capital: Analytic and Synthetic
5 With What Must the Critique of Capital Begin?
Division I Capital in Its Notion
6 Commodity
7 Money
8 Capital
Division II Capital Relation
9 Circulation
10 Production
11 Reproduction
Division III The System of Capital
Introduction to Division III
12 Capital as a System of Capitals
13 The System of Industrial Capital
14 The Dual Ontology of Capital
15 Absolute Capital
16 Capital and Its Others: Labour and Land
17 The Spectre
18 Review of the Presentation
19 Beyond Capital and Class
Appendix 1: Commentary on Hegel’s Logic
Appendix 2: Tables
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1 Object and Method
1 Capital and Social Form
2 Capital and the Actuality of the Ideal
3 Systematic Dialectic
4 The Two Dialectics of Capital: Analytic and Synthetic
5 With What Must the Critique of Capital Begin?
Part 2 The Ideal Constitution of Capital
Division I Capital in Its Notion
6 Commodity
7 Money
8 Capital
Division II Capital Relation
9 Circulation
10 Production
11 Reproduction
Division III The System of Capital
Introduction to Division III
12 Capital as a System of Capitals
13 The System of Industrial Capital
14 The Dual Ontology of Capital
15 Absolute Capital
16 Capital and Its Others: Labour and Land
17 The Spectre
18 Review of the Presentation
19 Beyond Capital and Class
Appendix 1: Commentary on Hegel’s Logic
Appendix 2: Tables
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Specialists in Marx (of his Capital especially) and Hegel (of his Logic especially), in the critique of political economy, and post-graduate students in philosophy.