Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length engagement with Marx's magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx's thought as if it were a musical score. The textual landscape that emerges is the setting for paradoxes and contradictions that struggle toward resolution, giving rise to new antinomies and a new forward movement. These immense segments overlap each other to combine and develop on new levels in the same way that capital itself does, stumbling against obstacles that it overcomes by progressive expansions, which are in themselves so many leaps into the unknown. Marx's fundamental concepts are not presented philosophically, or in socialscientific terms, but rather as a series of figures produced by the development of the text. Jameson grasps Marx's work as a representational problem and an experiment in constructing the figure or model of the inexpressible phenomenon that is capital.
- ISBN10 1844674541
- ISBN13 9781844674541
- Publish Date 22 June 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 November 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Verso Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English