Marx for the 21st Century?

September 23, 2024

4:30PM - 6:00PM

Room 165 Thompson Library

Add to Calendar 2024-09-23 15:30:00 2024-09-23 17:00:00 Marx for the 21st Century? Marx for the 21st Century?Celebrating and reflecting on the new translation of Marx’s CapitalMonday, September 23rd, 4:30pm to 6pmThompson Library, Room 165 The Ohio State University’s Department of Political Science Political Theory Workshop, with support from the Center for Ethics and Human Values,welcomes Paul Reitter (Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Ohio State), the translator of the first new English translation of Marx’s Capital in 50 yearsand William Clare Roberts (Associate Professor, McGill University), author of the new edition’s afterword as well as the Deutscher Memorial Prize-winning Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capitalin a special session moderated by Emma Saunders-Hastings (Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio State). Karl Marx (1818–1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. Though only the first volume saw publication in Marx’s lifetime, it would become one of the most consequential books in history. This new edition of Capital - the first translation into English to be based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself – aspires to be a translation of Marx for the twenty-first century. This panel discussion will consider questions of translation, history, and political theory. What challenges does translating Capital pose and what are their import for political theory? What are the book’s different analytic and stylistic modes and what are their stakes, both for the politics of Marx’s time and our own? What is the place of Capital in the history of politics and political thought? What does it mean to translate Marx into the 21st century?Questions? Please contact mckean.41@osu.edu Room 165 Thompson Library OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

2024-09-23 16:30:00 2024-09-23 18:00:00 Marx for the 21st Century? Marx for the 21st Century?Celebrating and reflecting on the new translation of Marx’s CapitalMonday, September 23rd, 4:30pm to 6pmThompson Library, Room 165 The Ohio State University’s Department of Political Science Political Theory Workshop, with support from the Center for Ethics and Human Values,welcomes Paul Reitter (Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Ohio State), the translator of the first new English translation of Marx’s Capital in 50 yearsand William Clare Roberts (Associate Professor, McGill University), author of the new edition’s afterword as well as the Deutscher Memorial Prize-winning Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capitalin a special session moderated by Emma Saunders-Hastings (Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio State). Karl Marx (1818–1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. Though only the first volume saw publication in Marx’s lifetime, it would become one of the most consequential books in history. This new edition of Capital - the first translation into English to be based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself – aspires to be a translation of Marx for the twenty-first century. This panel discussion will consider questions of translation, history, and political theory. What challenges does translating Capital pose and what are their import for political theory? What are the book’s different analytic and stylistic modes and what are their stakes, both for the politics of Marx’s time and our own? What is the place of Capital in the history of politics and political thought? What does it mean to translate Marx into the 21st century?Questions? Please contact mckean.41@osu.edu Room 165 Thompson Library America/New_York public

Marx for the 21^st Century?

Celebrating and reflecting on the new translation of Marx’s Capital

Monday, September 23^rd, 4:30pm to 6pm

Thompson Library, Room 165

The Ohio State University’s Department of Political Science Political Theory Workshop, with support from the Center for Ethics and Human Values,
welcomes Paul Reitter (Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Ohio State), the translator of the first new English translation of Marx’s Capital in 50 years
and William Clare Roberts (Associate Professor, McGill University), author of the new edition’s afterword as well as the Deutscher Memorial Prize-winning Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital

in a special session moderated by Emma Saunders-Hastings (Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio State).

Karl Marx (1818–1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. Though only the first volume saw publication in Marx’s lifetime, it would become one of the most consequential books in history. This new edition of Capital - the first translation into English to be based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself – aspires to be a translation of Marx for the twenty-first century.

This panel discussion will consider questions of translation, history, and political theory. What challenges does translating Capital pose and what are their import for political theory? What are the book’s different analytic and stylistic modes and what are their stakes, both for the politics of Marx’s time and our own? What is the place of Capital in the history of politics and political thought? What does it mean to translate Marx into the 21^st century?

Questions? Please contact mckean.41@osu.edu