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Marx After Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism
Political Science > Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
- Columbia University Press
- Paperback
- 9780231174817
- 8.6 X 5.5 X 0.8 inches
- 0.85 pounds
- Political Science > Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
- (Single Author) Asian American
- English
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Book Description
This book deprovincializes Marx and the West's cultural turn by returning to the theorist's earlier explanations of capital's origins and development, which followed a trajectory beyond Euro-America to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Marx's expansive view shows how local circumstances, time, and culture intervened to reshape capital's system of production in these regions. His outline of a diversified global capitalism was much more robust than was his sketch of the English experience in Capital and helps explain the disparate routes that evolved during the twentieth century. Engaging with the texts of Lenin, Luxemburg, Gramsci, and other pivotal theorists, Harootunian strips contemporary Marxism of its cultural preoccupation by reasserting the deep relevance of history.
Author Bio
Harry Harootunian is professor emeritus of New York University and his research interests include early modern and modern Japanese history, and historical theory.
Professor Harootunian received his B.A. from Wayne State (1951), M.A. in Far Eastern Studies and Ph.D. 1958 in History from Michigan.
His prolific publications include
History’s Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice and the Question of the Everyday Life (Columbia UP, 2000),
Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture and Commodity in Interwar Japan (Princeton UP, 2000),
Japan in the World, ed. with Masao Miyoshi (Duke UP, 1993), and
Postmodernism in Japan, with Masao Miyoshi (Duke UP, 1989).
Professor Harootunian was formerly the Max Palevsky Professor of History and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, the Dean of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz, editor of Journal for Asian Studies, and co-editor of Critical Inquiry.
Source: NYU Arts & Science
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