SP18 PHIL496/596

Professor: Max Rosenkrantz

 

This course will be devoted to a careful reading of substantial selections from Volume I of Capital, supplemented with selections from the 1844 Manuscripts, Grundrisse and (time permitting) Volumes II and III of Capital. In addition, we will read a number of works by later writers—Marxist and non-Marxist—that illuminate the issues Marx discusses. We will cover the central issues in Marxist theory: the origins of capitalism, the labor theory of value, class, exploitation, technology, ‘early Marx’ versus ‘late Marx’, formal and real subsumption, class composition, the reproduction schemas, finance capital and economic crisis (i.e., recessions and depressions)