"Counterfeit Capital" is a comparative and interdisciplinary study
exploring the unexpected yet essential relationship between irony
and capital in the texts of Baudelaire and Marx. It argues for the
renewed relevance of their work to contemporary thinking about the
place of aesthetic and cultural experience in social and political
life and articulates their poetic and philosophical innovations
with their political statements in new and powerful ways. Through
readings of Baudelaire's poetry and prose and Marx's "Capital,"
this book illuminates their ongoing contribution to our
understanding of themes and topics at the forefront of contemporary
theoretical debate, including the effects of new technologies on
the means of human action and transformation and the prospects for
community and memory under capitalism. This book also revisits
Walter Benjamin's interpretations of the philosopher and the poet.
Rereading Baudelaire and Marx together with the unplumbed lessons
of Benjamin's interpretations, it contributes to a growing body of
interdisciplinary scholarship on the political dimensions and
effects of language and to the current rethinking, in Marxist and
post-Marxist theory, of conceptions of political time and agency.
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