Reading Capital

Capital is frequently described as a difficult-to-categorize text: part satire, part history, part theory. Yet for all this ambiguity, there is a sense in which the subtitle makes its generic affiliation quite clear: it is a “critique of political economy.” What exactly is “critique,” and how, in light of recent debates in literary studies, might reading Capital sharpen our sense of what it can and cannot do? And to what extent can it be considered a creative or poetic practice, as much as one committed to truth?

ENGL 21854 | FNDL 21854 | ANTH 41202 | AASR 41203 | GRMN 41202 | CCCT 21854