A Contemporary History of Marx’s Capital

Paolo Favilli provides both students and scholars with an original reading of themes and issues found in Karl Marx’s Das Kapital and its connections with present- day challenges. By way of continuous cross- referencing between present and past, Favilli demonstrates that claims regarding the scientific status of Das Kapital , advanced by countless texts since its original publication, are themselves deeply imbued by the ‘spirit of the times’. If in 1963 Jean-Paul Sartre could write that Marxism w