Contents

Editorial Note

Presentation – Étienne Balibar

PART ONE

From Capital to Marx’s Philosophy – Louis Althusser

PART TWO

The Concept of Critique and the Critique of Political Economy: From the 1844 Manuscripts to Capital – Jacques Rancière

1.The Critique of Political Economy in the 1844 Manuscripts

2.Critique and Science in Capital

3.Remarks by Way of Conclusion

PART THREE

On the Process of Exposition of Capital (The Work of Concepts) – Pierre Macherey

1.The Starting-Point and the Analysis of Wealth

2.The Analysis of the Commodity and the Appearance of Contradiction

3.The Analysis of Value

PART FOUR

The Object of Capital – Louis Althusser

1.Introduction

2.Marx and His Discoveries

3.The Merits of Classical Economics

4.The Errors of Classical Economics: Outline of a Concept of Historical Time

5.Marxism Is Not a Historicism

6.The Epistemological Propositions of Capital (Marx, Engels)

7.The Object of Political Economy

8.Marx’s Critique

9.Marx’s Immense Theoretical Revolution

Appendix: On the ‘Ideal Average’ and the Forms of Transition

PART FIVE

On the Basic Concepts of Historical Materialism – Étienne Balibar

1.From Periodization to the Modes of Production

2.The Elements of the Structure and their History

3.On Reproduction

4.Elements for a Theory of Transition

PART SIX

Presentation of the Plan of Capital – Roger Establet

1.Marx’s Own Presentation of Capital

2.The Articulations of Capital

3.The Theoretical Field of Volumes One and Two

4.The Definition of the Object of the Second Part of Articulation II

5.The Study of the Sub-articulations of the Second Part of Articulation II

6.The Definition of Articulation II

7.Conclusion

Notes

Glossary

Index