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Ausgezeichnet !
Pardon me, Hans, but this is "kick ass" (US, slang) stuff ! A detailed,
THE detailed companion to DAS KAPITAL.
Over 3 000 pages of commentary, with the German original obligingly
furnished alongside a painstaking English translation where all the
nuances are pointed out. "Der Reichtum der Gesellschaften, in welchen
kapitalistische Produktionsweiseh errscht, erscheint als eine ungeheure
Warensammlung“...
Right, forget Althusser ("à rien !" as his students mocked him for his
pro-CP stance during May 1968), forget Lukacs (although I don't know if
the final masterpiece of his later years, "Ontology of the Social Being,
Prolegomena to Materialist Dialectical philosophy" has been translated.
The French version only came out a few years ago, created quite a storm,
and a remaining 2 000 pages remain to be translated).
First, I will read your companion to Capital. Thoroughly. Will take me
at least two months I guess, even though ALL the concepts are already
familiar to me (I think, but this is boasting on my part).
>From the pdf file, I see a thousand pages are devoted to the first three
chapters of Capital. And 500 to the production of Absolute Surplus-Value
(chaps 7 to 10).
Oh gosh !
And are there any "answer keys" to the questions you ask your students
in the course ? The questions are really thought-provoking and deserving
of lengthy treatment. But being a teacher myself, I know it is always
better to ask the questions and not provide the answers, because a)
students have to think for themselves and b) you never know what
interesting stuff a student might come up with, even though they are
wrong. Nonetheless, your own answers to some of the essay questions in
the course could help clarify things for an isolated reader on the
internet.
Anyway, I am simply awe-stricken.
The only French language academic resource I know of is the "Marx in the
21st century" seminar organized by the Sorbonne University. I suppose
you already know about this event. 30 conferences each year since 2007.
An audio and video archive of all the conferences is available at
http://chspm.univ-paris1.fr/spip.php?article193
Some interesting conferences : Althusser, violence, history, Bonaparte,
Lukacs, reification, revolution, class, literature, God, ideology,
Manheim, Sartre, Goldman, Socialist states, markets, contradictions, the
state, democracy, colonialism, sociology, working class, labour, Marx's
1844 manuscripts, Marx and French 19th century history, capital
reproduction, Brecht, casualization of the labour force, sociology,
materialism and realism, class struggle and the subconscious,
Psychoanalysis and Marxism, ontology, Marxism and cinema, Rousseau and
Marx, business cycles, economic crisis, 1848, Polanyi, utopia in
Capital, Foucault and Marx, Marxism and linguistics, positive law and
revolution, Marcuse, dialectics, Marxist interpretations of the French
Revolution of 1789, Engels and philosophy, Hegel's logic and Marx, Marx
and Heine, Fichte and Marx, Marxism and the environmental crisis, Marx
and Lacan, etc...)
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