A New Introduction to Karl Marx: New Materialism, Critique of Political Economy, and the Concept of Metabolism: Social Thinker Who Fought Capitalism: ... Economy, and the Concept of Metabolism - Brossura

Sasaki, Ryuji

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ISBN 10: 3030529525 ISBN 13: 9783030529529

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

Riassunto

?This book provides a concise overview of Marx’s philosophy and political economy, tracing various changes of his theoretical views over time through his practical and theoretical engagements with contradictions of capitalism from the unique perspective of Japanese Marxism. While it offers an objective introduction to Marx’s critique of capitalism, Sasaki uniquely pays particular attention to the concept of “metabolism,” whose disruption under the capitalist mode of production causes exhaustion of labour-power as well as natural resources. Sasaki reconstructs Marx as a revolutionary thinker, whose devoted his entire life for the sake of establishing a more free and equal society beyond capitalism. Sasaki’s book shows that Marx’s passion for the socialist revolution in his last years is recorded in his late excerpt notebooks that become available through the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Ryuji Sasaki is Associate Professor of Economics at Rikkyo University, Japan.

Michael Schauerte is a translator based in Miyazaki, Japan.

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This book provides a concise overview of Marx’s philosophy and political economy, tracing various changes of his theoretical views over time through his practical and theoretical engagements with contradictions of capitalism from the unique perspective of Japanese Marxism. While it offers an objective introduction to Marx’s critique of capitalism, Sasaki uniquely pays particular attention to the concept of “metabolism,” whose disruption under the capitalist mode of production causes exhaustion of labour-power as well as natural resources. Sasaki reconstructs Marx as a revolutionary thinker, whose devoted his entire life for the sake of establishing a more free and equal society beyond capitalism. Sasaki’s book shows that Marx’s passion for the socialist revolution in his last years is recorded in his late excerpt notebooks that become available through the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe.

Ryuji Sasaki is Associate Professor of Economics at Rikkyo University, Japan.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3030529525
• ISBN 13: 9783030529529
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 244
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