Description: On the Nature of Marx's Things by Jacques Lezra, Vittorio Morfino Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description On the Nature of Marxs Things traces to Marxs earliest writings a Lucretian practice that Lezra calls necrophilological translation. Publisher Description On the Nature of Marxs Things is a major rethinking of the Marxian tradition, one based not on fixed things but on the inextricable interrelation between the material world and our language for it. Lezra traces to Marxs earliest writings a subterranean, Lucretian practice that he calls necrophilological translation that continues to haunt Marxs inheritors. This Lucretian strain, requiring that we think materiality in non-self-evident ways, as dynamic, aleatory, and always marked by its relation to language, raises central questions about ontology, political economy, and reading."Lezra," writes Vittorio Morfino in his preface, "transfers all of the power of the Althusserian encounter into his conception of translation." Lezras expansive understanding of translation covers practices that put different natural and national languages into relation, often across periods, but also practices or mechanisms internal to each language. Obscured by later critical attention to the contradictory lexicons-of fetishism and of chrematistics-that Capital uses to describe how value accrues to commodities, and by the dialectical approach thats framed Marxs work since Engels sought to marry it to the natural philosophy of his time, necrophilological translation has a troubling, definitive influence in Marxs thought and in his wake. It entails a radical revision of what counts as translation, and wholly new ways of imagining what an object is, of what counts as matter, value, sovereignty, mediation, and even number. In On the Nature of Marxs Things a materialism "of the encounter," as recent criticism in the vein of the late Althusser calls it, encounters Marxological value-form theory, post-Schmittian divisible sovereignty, object-oriented-ontologies and the critique of correlationism, and philosophies of translation and untranslatability in debt to Quine, Cassin, and Derrida. The inheritors of the problems with which Marx grapples range from Spinozas marranismo, through Melvilles Bartleby, through the development of a previously unexplored Freudian political theology shaped by the revolutionary traditions of Schiller and Verdi, through Adornos exilic antihumanism against Saids cosmopolitan humanism, through todays new materialisms.Ultimately, necrophilology draws the story of capitals capture of difference away from the story of capitals production of subjectivity. It affords concepts and procedures for dismantling the system of objects on which neoliberal capitalism stands: concrete, this-wordly things like commodities, but also such "objects" as debt traps, austerity programs, the marketization of risk; ideologies; the pedagogical, professional, legal, even familial institutions that produce and reproduce inequities today. Author Biography Jacques Lezra is Distinguished Professor in the Departments of English and Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent publications are RepÚblica salvaje (2019), On the Nature of Marxs Things (2018), Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought (2017), and Contra todos los fueros de la Muerte (2016). Details ISBN 0823279421 ISBN-13 9780823279425 Title On the Nature of Marx's Things Author Jacques Lezra, Vittorio Morfino Format Hardcover Year 2018 Pages 288 Publisher Fordham University Press GE_Item_ID:137593237; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. 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Book Title: On the Nature of Marx's Things : Translation As Necrophilology
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Publication Year: 2018
Topic: Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Comparative Literature, History & Theory, Political
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Author: Jacques Lezra
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