Marx and American Studies
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W 6-9
This course will focus on the works of Marx, emphasizing Marx's early writings; the theory of value; his political writings on nationalism, slavery, and the U.S. within global capitalism; and gendered categories such as the social reproduction of labor and the reserve army of labor. Likely texts are: Marx's dissertation (The Difference between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature); Theses on Feuerbach; Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts; On the Jewish Question; The Holy Family; Wage Labor and Capital; The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte; Grundrisse; Wages, Price, and Profit; Capital vol. I; and articles in the New York Daily Tribune and Die Presse. We will occasionally supplement our close readings of Marx with contemporary commentators who address our emphases.
updated 2008-04-25
