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This book demonstrates that the basic concepts of the three volumes of Capital come under different categories of time: "time of production" in the first volume is linear, “time of circulation” in the second is circular, while in the third volume “organic time” is the unity of the two. Capitalist relations emerge as a definite organisation of social time that obeys its own intrinsic criteria and operates as an autonomous, social subject. Reading Capital from this perspective, it becomes possible to restore its dialectical (Hegelian) logic – not in order to reveal the “real” Marx, but as a means to contribute to the understanding of the real, capitalist world with its present-day fetishes, its explosive contradictions and its ever deeper crises.
Price: $215.00
Pages: 328
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Historical Materialism Book Series
Publication Date:
25 November 2013
ISBN: 9789004217263
Format: Hardcover
“With time as his starting point, Stavros Tombazos sheds light on the general intelligibility of Capital and the originality of its own logic… A frequent critique directed at Marx is that he remains tributary of the determinist epistemology of his time. This work draws our attention to an opposite tendency of his thought, ready to welcome the contemporary developments of fuzzy logic, chaos theory, the unity between chance and necessity.”
Daniel Bensaïd
“The title of this book could have been Reading Capital, had this title not already been used: reading the whole of Capital, with a scrupulous loyalty to the order of its reasons… ‘Time’ appears as the most adequate consideration with respect to this aim, to be precise the successive times intersecting and over-determining each other… The exposition of the theory of fetishism forms the core of Tombazos’s work. I believe that, of the entire literature dedicated to this issue, Tombazos’s elucidation is the best.”
George Labica
Daniel Bensaïd
“The title of this book could have been Reading Capital, had this title not already been used: reading the whole of Capital, with a scrupulous loyalty to the order of its reasons… ‘Time’ appears as the most adequate consideration with respect to this aim, to be precise the successive times intersecting and over-determining each other… The exposition of the theory of fetishism forms the core of Tombazos’s work. I believe that, of the entire literature dedicated to this issue, Tombazos’s elucidation is the best.”
George Labica
Stavros Tombazos, Ph.D. (1991), Université Paris 8, is Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cyprus. He has published numerous books and articles on the thought of Hegel and Marx, on Globalisation, the European Integration and Capitalist Crises. His latest book, published in Greek, is titled: Centrifugal Times, The World Economic Crisis 2007, 2008, 2009… (Papazisis, 2010). He is a regular contributor to the French journals Contretemps and Lignes.