{"product_id":"marx-in-motion-a-new-materialist-marxism-9780197526484","title":"Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism","description":"Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalisms, and global climate change, people are again looking to the father of modern socialism for answers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs this book argues, every era since Marx's death has reinvented him to fit its needs. There is not one Marx forever and for all time. There are a thousand Marxes. As Thomas Nail contends, one of the most significant contributions of Marx's work is that it treats theory itself as a historical practice. Reading Marx is not just an interpretative activity but a creative one. As our historical conditions change, so do the kinds of questions we pose and the kinds of answers we find in Marx's writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is a return to the writings of Karl Marx, including his under-appreciated dissertation, through the lens of the pressing philosophical and political problems of our time: ecological crisis, gender inequality, colonialism, and global mobility. However, the aim of this book is not to make Marxism relevant by \"applying\" it to contemporary issues. Instead, \u003cem\u003eMarx in Motion\u003c\/em\u003e, the first new materialist interpretation of Marx's work, treats \u003cem\u003eCapital \u003c\/em\u003eas if it were already a response to the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThomas Nail argues that Marx was a new materialist \u003cem\u003eavant la lettre\u003c\/em\u003e. He argues that Marx did not believe history was determined, or that matter was passive, or that humans were separate or superior to nature. Marx did not even have a labor theory of value. Marxists argue that new materialists lack a sufficient political and economic theory, and new materialists argue that Marx's materialism is human-centric and mechanistic. This book aims to solve both problems by proposing a new materialist Marxism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Nail, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Philosphy, University of Denver\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThomas Nail\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the author of several books, including \u003cem\u003eReturning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo, The Figure of the Migrant, Theory of the Border, Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion, Being and Motion, Theory of the Image\u003c\/em\u003e, and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eBetween Deleuze and Foucault\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50478352335122,"sku":"9780197526484","price":51.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_75f2b951-a02a-46be-b239-2397c2fa9eee.jpg?v=1730297089","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/marx-in-motion-a-new-materialist-marxism-9780197526484","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}