Overview
- Presents a unique interpretation of Marx informed by the latest scholarship in Japan.
- Accessibly written for scholars, students, and even educated general interest readers
- Reflects the recent studies on MEGA2, including ‘late’ Marx’s thoughts on ‘metabolism’ with nature
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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This book provides a concise overview of Marx’s philosophy and political economy, tracing various changes of his theoretical views over time through his practical and theoretical engagements with contradictions of capitalism from the unique perspective of Japanese Marxism. While it offers an objective introduction to Marx’s critique of capitalism, Sasaki uniquely pays particular attention to the concept of “metabolism,” whose disruption under the capitalist mode of production causes exhaustion of labour-power as well as natural resources. Sasaki reconstructs Marx as a revolutionary thinker, whose devoted his entire life for the sake of establishing a more free and equal society beyond capitalism. Sasaki’s book shows that Marx’s passion for the socialist revolution in his last years is recorded in his late excerpt notebooks that become available through the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe.
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ryuji Sasaki is Associate Professor of Economics at Rikkyo University, Japan.
Michael Schauerte is a translator based in Miyazaki, Japan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A New Introduction to Karl Marx
Book Subtitle: New Materialism, Critique of Political Economy, and the Concept of Metabolism
Authors: Ryuji Sasaki
Translated by: Michael Schauerte
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52950-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52949-9Published: 31 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52952-9Published: 31 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52950-5Published: 30 January 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 215
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, International Political Economy, Political Sociology, Political Philosophy