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Reading Capital’s Materialist Dialectic analyzes the theory of materialist dialectic as it is developed in the writings of Louis Althusser, Pierre Macherey, and Alain Badiou, focusing on their singular analyses of Marx’s process of demonstration in Capital and Spinoza’s Ethics.
Nick Nesbitt’s Reading Capital’s Materialist Dialectic is a major contribution to the literature on Spinozist Marxism, to our understanding of the stakes of Althusser’s theoretical intervention, and to debates about rationalist epistemology more generally. Theoretically daring and impeccably written, it offers a substantial and important reinterpretation of Marx’s dialectical method in Capital. – Nathan Brown, Concordia University, author of Rationalist Empiricism
Nick Nesbitt is Professor of French at Princeton University and Senior Researcher at the Department for the Study of Modern Czech Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, CAS, Prague. He is the author most recently of The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean (Virginia 2022), and editor of The Concept in Crisis: Reading Capital Today (Duke 2017).