Daniel (and others),
a minor correction to my last post...
> > Having said this, two things: Postone's
> > reinterpretation stands out from most, all down the years, and I think
> > ranks with Althusser and Balibar's Reading Capital (would that this
> weren't
> > the US, and it were more feasible for this book to do real cultural
work,
> a
> > la A&B's);
>
> first, i do not know balibar's reading of capital, but i can say that
while
> althusser's reading certainly was influential, i do not regard it
> highly--since its popularity, i believe, is simply due to althusser's
> "positivism"... more on this later...
>
i had misread your post to mean A and B's _respective readings of capital_,
and forgotten that this book _Reading Capital_ was in fact co-authored by
Balibar... i have not read this book itself, and as you can probably guess
from my post, i have only read some other essays by althusser... but it
was enough for me, since having read marx myself, i could hardly stand to
read such a positivistic marxism....
please excuse my ignorance...
yours,
d.///
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
David J. Wiltsee
Dept. of Economics
University of Utah
david.wiltsee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
WILTSEE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
a minor correction to my last post...
> > Having said this, two things: Postone's
> > reinterpretation stands out from most, all down the years, and I think
> > ranks with Althusser and Balibar's Reading Capital (would that this
> weren't
> > the US, and it were more feasible for this book to do real cultural
work,
> a
> > la A&B's);
>
> first, i do not know balibar's reading of capital, but i can say that
while
> althusser's reading certainly was influential, i do not regard it
> highly--since its popularity, i believe, is simply due to althusser's
> "positivism"... more on this later...
>
i had misread your post to mean A and B's _respective readings of capital_,
and forgotten that this book _Reading Capital_ was in fact co-authored by
Balibar... i have not read this book itself, and as you can probably guess
from my post, i have only read some other essays by althusser... but it
was enough for me, since having read marx myself, i could hardly stand to
read such a positivistic marxism....
please excuse my ignorance...
yours,
d.///
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
David J. Wiltsee
Dept. of Economics
University of Utah
david.wiltsee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
WILTSEE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~