This book, originally published in French under the title "Que faire du Capital?", offers a new interpretation of Marx's great work. It shows how the novelty and lasting interest of Marx's theory arises from the fact that, as against the project of a 'pure' economics, it is formulated in concepts that have simultaneously an economic and a political aspect, neither of these being separable from the other. Jacques Bidet conducts an unprecedented investigation of Marx's work in the spirit of the history of science, exploring it as a process of theoretical development. Traditional exegesis reads the successive drafts of Capital as if they were complementary and mutually illuminated one another. In actual fact, like any scientist, Marx only wrote a new version in order to correct the previous one. He started from ideas borrowed from Ricardo and Hegel, and between one draft and the next it is possible to see these being eliminated and restructured. This labour, moreover, was never fully completed. The author thus re-assesses Marx's entire system in its set of constitutive categories: value, market, labour-power, classes, working class, exploitation, production, fetishism, ideology. He seeks to pin down the difficulties that these encountered, and the analytical and critical value they still have today. Bidet attaches the greatest importance to Marx's order of exposition, which assigns each concept its place in the overall system, and makes the validity of the construction depend on the pertinence of its initial presuppositions. This is particularly the case with the relationship between market mechanism and capitalism - and thus also between the market and socialism.
Author(s): Bob Becking
Series: Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 348
Between Fear and Freedom......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
1.2 The Art and the Act of Interpretation......Page 12
1.3 The Book of Consolation......Page 14
1.4 The Outline of this Book......Page 19
2.1 Introduction......Page 22
2.2.1 Zero Variants......Page 27
2.2.2 Linguistic Exegesis......Page 31
2.2.3 Instance where the MT Has a Corruption......Page 34
2.2.4 Instances where the Old Greek Did Not Understand Its Vorlage......Page 35
2.2.5 Secondary Additions in the LXX......Page 37
2.2.6 Minor Content Variants......Page 38
2.2.7 Content Variants......Page 43
2.2.8 A Rearranged Unit......Page 50
2.3 Conclusions......Page 57
3.1 Introduction......Page 60
3.2 Previous Proposals......Page 63
3.3 Petuḥa and Setuma in Various Manuscripts......Page 72
3.4 Macro Syntactical Indicators......Page 80
3.6 The Composition of Jeremiah 30–31: A Proposal......Page 84
3.7 Delimitation of Lines......Page 101
3.8 Delimitation of Strophes......Page 118
3.9 Delimitation of Canticles......Page 134
3.10 Remarks on the Macro-Structure of Jeremiah 30–31......Page 139
4.1 Introduction......Page 146
4.2 Text and Translation......Page 149
4.3 Composition......Page 151
4.3.1 Awful Terror Jer. 30:5–7......Page 152
4.3.2 Prophecy of Liberation Jeremiah 30:8–9......Page 160
4.3.3 Oracle of Salvation Jeremiah 30:10–11......Page 165
4.4 Literary and Conceptual Unity of Jeremiah 30:5–11......Page 174
5.2 Text and Translation......Page 176
5.3.1 Critical Positions: Duhm, Volz and Holladay......Page 181
5.3.2 Arguing for Literary Unity......Page 182
5.4.1 Motif and Model: Incurable Fracture and Divine Force Majeure......Page 187
5.4.2 The Linguistics of lākēn......Page 193
5.4.3 Relations between the Actors......Page 194
5.5 Divine Changeability and Shifts in Time......Page 197
6.1 Introduction......Page 199
6.2.1 The Quotation in Matthew......Page 200
6.2.2 The Literary Structure of Jeremiah 31:15–17......Page 206
6.2.3 A Conceptual Comparison between Jer. 31:15–17 and Mt. 2:18......Page 215
6.2.4 Conclusion......Page 217
6.3.1 Text and Translation of Jer. 31:18–20......Page 218
6.3.2 Compositional and Stylistic Observations......Page 219
6.3.4 Ephraim's Complaint and Change......Page 220
6.3.5 Yhwh's Compassionate Reaction......Page 222
6.4.1 Text and Translation......Page 227
6.4.3 Ketîb-Qerê and the Return of the Divine Glory......Page 228
6.4.4 An Enigmatic Motivation......Page 232
6.5 The Conceptual Coherence of Jeremiah 31:15–22......Page 236
7.2 Tragic Fatalism versus Personal Responsibility......Page 238
7.3 The Context of the Saying......Page 249
7.4 The Interpretation of the New Saying......Page 254
8.1 Introduction......Page 255
8.2 The Text of Jeremiah 31:31–34......Page 256
8.2.1 Translation......Page 257
8.2.2 Textual Remarks......Page 258
8.2.3 Syntactical Analysis......Page 261
8.2.4 Stylistic Remarks......Page 264
8.2.5 Text-internal Chronology......Page 266
8.2.6 On Dating Texts......Page 271
8.2.7 The Text-external Chronology of Jer. 31:31–34......Page 273
8.3 The Reliability of Reality......Page 274
8.3.1 Jeremiah 31:35–37: Translation and Textual Remarks......Page 275
8.3.2 Conservatio Creationis......Page 276
8.3.3 Time and Space: Divine Construction and Threatened Reality......Page 277
8.3.4 Adynata......Page 278
8.4 Covenant and Cosmos—Reliability and Relationship—The Conceptual Coherence of Jer. 31:31–37......Page 279
8.4.1 History as the Ground of Being......Page 280
8.4.2 Creation as the Ground of Being......Page 282
9.1.1 Twofold Transformation......Page 284
9.1.2 Sin and Sorrow: The First Transformation......Page 285
9.1.3 Return and New Relationship......Page 286
9.1.4 Divine Changeability......Page 287
9.2.1 Van der Wal's Thesis......Page 288
9.2.2 Analysis of Van der Wal's Position......Page 290
9.2.3 Conclusion......Page 294
10.1 Reading a Text Theologically......Page 295
10.2.1 Cosmic Law......Page 298
10.2.2 Law to Live With......Page 299
10.3.1 Cosmic Battle......Page 300
10.3.2 God's Royal and Loyal Power......Page 301
10.4.1 The Secret of Life......Page 303
10.4.2 Daily Life......Page 304
10.5.1 Restoration and Return......Page 307
10.5.2 Relation between Theme and Tripartite Theology......Page 309
10.5.3 Text in Context (Short)......Page 310
10.5.4 The Distortion of the Economy of Guilt......Page 312
Bibliography......Page 314
Index of Authors......Page 334
Index of Textual References......Page 340
Back Matter: Oudtestamentische Studien......Page 350
