After leaving this page fallow for some time, I’ll now be adding chapters regularly again. Once the thesis is finally submitted, I’ll place a PDF of the whole work here. Note that, because it is difficult to reproduce footnotes on the blog at the moment, the draft chapters present only the main body of my text. While this may be useful for those who are wanting a distilled version of my argument, it has the disadvantage of leaving out the connections between my work and the work of other scholars, since I deal with the literature almost exclusively in the footnotes. When I put up the PDF of the completed thesis, this will contain the whole text, with apparatus, which will provide a much better sense of the context for the arguments I’m putting forward here. For even earlier versions of some of these chapters, check out the “Scratchpad” category and the series of posts on Capital volume 1 collected under the “Marx” tab.
Chapter 1: Historical Materialism, Real Abstraction and Social Deconstruction
Chapter 2: When Is It Safe to Go on Reading Capital?
Chapter 4: With What Must a Science Begin?
Chapter 5: Personifying Commodities
Chapter 6: How Does Essence Appear?