From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2007 - 10:16:28 EDT
>Another request for help. > >Does anyone know of discussions of the relation between the alienated or >estranged labour of the 1844 Ms and the abstract labour of Capital? > >Many thanks, > > John Looking forward to what others say, John. I do know where I would look to see whether the connection has been made (but no promises!)-- Istvan Meszaros Marx's Theory of Alienation, Michel Henry Karl Marx, Moishe Postone Time Labor and Social Domination, and of course Chris Arthur Dialectic of Labour. There is a new book by Bruno Gulli titled Labor of Fire (Temple University Press); haven't read it yet, first chapter seems to be on the Manuscripts, seems to connect the early concept of labor to the later works. I have also been wanting to read Michael Evans' essay on the Paris Manuscripts, but I can't remember where it was published. Marcuse's early essays have been published in a volume Heideggerian Marxism, ed. John Abromeit and Richard Wolin. I would like to reread Marcuse's analysis of the Paris Manuscripts written soon after they had been discovered. And to make the argument for a connection one would probably have to critique Ranciere's argument for a break from the Paris Manuscripts. I hear third or fourth hand that Ranciere dismisses the chapter missing from the English translation of Reading Capital as a schoolboy exercise (the chapter was translated in a volume edited by Ali Rattansi). His later patricide of Althusser is well known. But he was obviously a very smart schoolboy. Rakesh
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