Giacomo Marramao studied philosophy at the University of Florence and social sciences at the University of Frankfurt. Visiting professor at several universities in Europe, America and Asia, he is currently Emeritus Professor of Theoretical and Political Philosophy at the University of Rome. Among his works translated into English are: Kairós: Towards an Ontology of Due Time; The Passage West; Against Power: For an Overhaul of Critical Theory; and Interregnum. Between Biopolitics and Posthegemony.

• The Marxism of Crisis and the Political Morphology of CapitalMatteo MandariniNote on the Translations1 Introduction (from Il Politico e le trasformazioni. Critica del capitalismo e ideologie della crisi tra anni Venti e anni Trenta)2 Councils and State in Weimar Germany (with Guido De Masi)3 The Theories of Breakdown and Organised Capitalism in the Debates of ‘Historical Extremism’ (from Il Politico e le trasformazioni)4 ‘Theory of the Crisis and the Problem of Constitution: In the Margin to the Konstitutionsproblematik’ (from Il Politico e le trasformazioni)5 Korsch in Italy6 Gramsci’s Marxism and the Theory of Transition7 Corporate Pluralism, Mass Democracy and Authoritarian State8 From the Crisis of the ‘Self-Organised Market’ to the ‘Authoritarian State’: Notes on the Relationship between Political Economy and Critical Theory (from Il Politico e le trasformazioni)9 Political System, Rationalisation, ‘Social Brain’BibliographyIndex

Giacomo Marramao studied philosophy at the University of Florence and social sciences at the University of Frankfurt. Visiting professor at several universities in Europe, America and Asia, he is currently Emeritus Professor of Theoretical and Political Philosophy at the University of Rome. Among his works translated into English are: Kairós: Towards an Ontology of Due Time; The Passage West; Against Power: For an Overhaul of Critical Theory; and Interregnum. Between Biopolitics and Posthegemony.

• The Marxism of Crisis and the Political Morphology of CapitalMatteo MandariniNote on the Translations1 Introduction (from Il Politico e le trasformazioni. Critica del capitalismo e ideologie della crisi tra anni Venti e anni Trenta)2 Councils and State in Weimar Germany (with Guido De Masi)3 The Theories of Breakdown and Organised Capitalism in the Debates of ‘Historical Extremism’ (from Il Politico e le trasformazioni)4 ‘Theory of the Crisis and the Problem of Constitution: In the Margin to the Konstitutionsproblematik’ (from Il Politico e le trasformazioni)5 Korsch in Italy6 Gramsci’s Marxism and the Theory of Transition7 Corporate Pluralism, Mass Democracy and Authoritarian State8 From the Crisis of the ‘Self-Organised Market’ to the ‘Authoritarian State’: Notes on the Relationship between Political Economy and Critical Theory (from Il Politico e le trasformazioni)9 Political System, Rationalisation, ‘Social Brain’BibliographyIndex

Giacomo Marramao studied philosophy at the University of Florence and social sciences at the University of Frankfurt. Visiting professor at several universities in Europe, America and Asia, he is currently Emeritus Professor of Theoretical and Political Philosophy at the University of Rome. Among his works translated into English are: Kairós: Towards an Ontology of Due Time; The Passage West; Against Power: For an Overhaul of Critical Theory; and Interregnum. Between Biopolitics and Posthegemony.

• The Marxism of Crisis and the Political Morphology of CapitalMatteo MandariniNote on the Translations1 Introduction (from Il Politico e le trasformazioni. Critica del capitalismo e ideologie della crisi tra anni Venti e anni Trenta)2 Councils and State in Weimar Germany (with Guido De Masi)3 The Theories of Breakdown and Organised Capitalism in the Debates of ‘Historical Extremism’ (from Il Politico e le trasformazioni)4 ‘Theory of the Crisis and the Problem of Constitution: In the Margin to the Konstitutionsproblematik’ (from Il Politico e le trasformazioni)5 Korsch in Italy6 Gramsci’s Marxism and the Theory of Transition7 Corporate Pluralism, Mass Democracy and Authoritarian State8 From the Crisis of the ‘Self-Organised Market’ to the ‘Authoritarian State’: Notes on the Relationship between Political Economy and Critical Theory (from Il Politico e le trasformazioni)9 Political System, Rationalisation, ‘Social Brain’BibliographyIndex