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This Complete Edition first published by Verso 2015
Translation of Parts One, Four and Five © Ben Brewster 1970, 1997, 2009, 2015
Translation of Part Two © Ben Brewster 1976, 2015
Translation of Parts Three and Six © David Fernbach 2015
First published as Lire le Capital © François Maspero 1965
Second (abridged) edition © François Maspero 1968
Third (complete) edition © Presses Universitaires de France 1996
First published (abridged) in this English translation by New Left Books 1970
First Verso edition published 1997
Part Two first published in English in Economy and Society 1976
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Althusser, Louis, 1918–1990. | Balibar, Etienne, 1942– | Fernbach, David.
Title: Reading capital : the complete edition / Louis Althusser ; introduction by Etienne Balibar ; contributions by Roger Establet ; contributions by Jacques Ranciere ; contributions by Pierre Macherey ; translated by Ben Brewster and David Fernbach.
Other titles: Lire “Le capital”. English
Description: Brooklyn : Verso, 2016. | First published in this English translation by New Left Books 1970; First Verso edition published 1997.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015028634| ISBN 9781784781415 (paperback) | ISBN 9781784781446 (hardback) | ISBN 9781784781439 (US) | ISBN 9781784781422 (UK)
Subjects: LCSH: Marx, Karl, 1818–1883. Kapital. | Marxian economics. | BISAC: POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
Classification: LCC HB501 .A5613 2016 | DDC 335.4/12–dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015028634
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