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"A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, which sought to reconstruct Western Marxism from its foundations. Previously only available in English in a highly abridged form, this 50th anniversary edition restores original chapters by Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Ranciere, accompanied by a major new introduction by Etienne Balibar on the book's continued impact. France's greatest philosophers scrutinize many of the most fundamental points in Marx's iconic text to reveal its philosophical core. From the Trade Paperback edition"--

Cover -- Systems of Life -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Systems of Life, or Bioeconomic Politics -- 1. Looking for (Economic) Growth in the Eighteenth Century -- 2. An African Diasporic Critique of Violence -- 3. Rousseau: Vital Instinct and Pity -- 4. System and Subject in Adam Smith's Political Economy: Nature, Vitalism, and Bioeconomic Life -- 5. Vitalism's Revolution: John Thelwall, Life, and the Economy of Radical Politics -- 6. Writing Generation: Revolutionary Bodies and the Poetics of Political Economy -- 7. William Blake and the Time of Ontogeny -- 8. Concerning Hunger: Empire Aesthetics in the Present Moment -- 9. The Hero Takes a Fall: Gravity, Comedy, and Darwin's Entangled Bank -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Index