This talk is hosted in collaboration with History of Consciousness and is co-sponsored by the UC’s Interdisciplinary Marxism Working Group (IMWG), the Marxist Institute for Research (MIR), UC Berkeley’s Department of German Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley’s Department of English and Program in Critical Theory.
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This presentation will discuss the history of Anglophone translations of Capital (Vol. 1) Karl Marx’s magnus opus, paying particular attention to the different circumstances that have shaped important translation decisions. It will also identify some of the major translation challenges the text poses and ask how the meaning of the Capital varies according to how we respond to those challenges.
Paul Reitter teaches in the German department at Ohio State University. He is the author, most recently, of Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age (cowritten with Chad Wellmon). His articles and essays have appeared in venues ranging from Representations to The New York Review of Books.
Paul North is Maurice Natanson Professor of German at Yale University. He teaches and writes critical theory. His books include The Problem of Distraction (Stanford University Press, 2011), The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation (Stanford University Press, 2015), Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness (Princeton University Press, 2021), and a new translation and critical reading edition of Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 (Princeton University Press, 2024).
Date | Time
February 5, 2025 | 12:15 – 1:30 PM [PST]
Free and open to the public
Venue | Location
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz