Re-reading Marx

CHRISTOPHER J. ARTHUR Former Professor at University of Sussex, UKMARTHA CAMPBELL Assistant Professor of Economics, Potsdam College, State University of New York, USAROBERTO FINELLI Professor of History of Modern Philosophy, University of Bari, ItalyROLF HECKER President, Berliner Vereins zur Förderung der MEGA-Edition e.V.; Co-editor, Beiträge zur Marx-Engels-Forschung Neue FolgeMICHAEL HEINRICH University of Applied Sciences (FHTW), Berlin, Germany; Member, Editorial Board, PROKLA: Zeitschrift für kritische SozialwissenschaftFRED MOSELEY Professor of Economics, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USAPATRICK MURRAY Professor of Philosophy, Creighton University, Omaha, NebraskaGEERT REUTEN Associate Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsREGINA ROTH Researcher and Editor, Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesTONY SMITH Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Iowa State University, USAMASSIMILIANO TOMBA Professor of Philosophy of Human Rights, University of Padua, Italy

• Introduction; R.Bellofiore & R.Fineschi New Perspectives Opened by the Publication of Marx's Manuscripts of Capital, Vol. II ; R.Hecker Karl Marx's Original Manuscripts in the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA): Another View on Capital ; R.Roth Dialectic of the Commodity and its Exposition: The German Debate in the 70s: a Personal Survey; R.Fineschi Reconstuction or Deconstruction? Methodological Controversies about Value and Capital and New Insights from the Critical Edition; M.Heinrich The Limits and Uncertainties of Historical Materialism: An Appraisal Based on the Text of Grundrisse (Notebooks III, IV and V); R.Finelli The Chapters on Machinery in the 1861-63 Manuscripts; T.Smith The Development of Marx's Theory of the Distribution of Surplus-Value in the Manuscripts of 1861-63; F.Moseley The Possessive Spirit of Capital: Subsumption/Inversion/Contradiction; C.J.Arthur The Place of 'The Results of the Immediate Production Process' in Capital ; P.Murray A Ghost Turning into a Vampire. The Concept of Capital and Living Labour; R.Bellofiore From History of Capital to History in Capital ; M.Tomba Marx's General Rate of Profit Transformation: Methodological and Theoretical Obstacles. An Appraisal Based on the 1864-65 Manuscript of Das Kapital III ; G.Reuten

'This heap of Marxian unpublished writings opens the way to new research perspectives that have been discussed on the occasion of an international conference held in Bergamo in July 2006, whose acts have now been edited by Riccardo Bellofiore and Robert Fineschi in the present volume.' - History of Economic Ideas vol. 29, no. 1, 2011