{"product_id":"a-companion-to-marxs-grundrisse-david-harvey-9781804290989","title":"A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse","description":"\u003cb\u003eDavid Harvey tackles Marx's notebooks that have spawned wide-ranging and raging controversies\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx's \u003ci\u003eGrundrisse\u003c\/i\u003e - his preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capital - in the 1950s in New York Public Library, he recognized it as \"a work of fundamental importance,\" but declared \"its unusual form\" and \"obscure manner of expression, made it far from suitable for reaching a wide circle of readers.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Harvey's \u003ci\u003eCompanion to Marx's Grundrisse\u003c\/i\u003e builds upon his widely acclaimed companions to the first and second volumes of \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e in a way that will reach as wide an audience as possible. Marx's stated ambition for this text - where he was thinking aloud about some of possible metamorphoses of capitalism - is to reveal \"the exact development of the concept of capital as the fundamental concept of modern economics, just as capital itself is the foundation of bourgeois society.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile respecting Marx's desire to \"bring out all the contradictions of bourgeois production, as well as the boundary where it drives beyond itself,\" David Harvey also pithily illustrates the relevance of Marx's text to understanding the troubled state of contemporary capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Harvey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 180429098X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781804290989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.30d","brand":"David Harvey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073310159103,"sku":"9781804290989","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_225a467e-6860-463d-b77d-b895a979e013.jpg?v=1685447076","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-companion-to-marxs-grundrisse-david-harvey-9781804290989","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}