The negative of capital : : the Marxian concept of economic crisis / / Jorge Grespan ; translated from the Portuguese by Martin Charles Nicholl.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series
• VerfasserIn: Grespan, Jorge,
• TeilnehmendeR: Nicholl, Martin Charles,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill,, [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 308.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (306 pages)

The complex exposition of the concept of economic crisis in Capital and its preparatory manuscripts gave rise to different interpretations about the causes and modalities of crises themselves. Are their causes chronic under-consumption, inter-sectoral disproportionality or a fall in the profit rate? Are they merely possible or absolutely inevitable? Jorge Grespan’s work renews these traditional debates by treating the concept of crisis as the negative of the concept of capital. By means of a thoroughgoing exposition of Marx’s masterwork, his book reconstitutes the steps by which Capital ’s exposition progressively enriches its content and form. To this end, dialectical categories such as measurelessness and relative necessity are mobilised and developed.

Table of Contents

Preface to the English edition -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Double Face of Capital -- 2 Content of the Crisis -- 3 Crisis and Modality -- 1 The World of Commodity Producers -- 1 The Social Division of Labour -- 2 Money and Crisis -- 2 The Constitution of Capital -- 1 From Simple Circulation to Capital -- 2 The Subjectivity of Capital -- 3 The Measureless Nature of Crisis -- 3 The Figures of Reproduction -- 1 The Circuits of Capital -- 2 The Reproduction of Social Capital -- 4 Capital as a Totality -- 1 Competition and Profit -- 2 The Tendential Fall in the Rate of Profit -- 3 Periodical Overaccumulation -- Conclusions -- 1 The Time of Crisis -- 2 The Actual Crisis -- 3 The Modalities of Crisis -- 4 The Power of Fetishism -- Postface -- 1 Commercial Capital and its Crises -- 2 Interest-Bearing Capital and its Crises -- Bibliography -- Index.