{"title":"Method and Critique","authors":"Thomas Nail","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197526477.003.0003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this chapter is to show the previously unacknowledged continuity between Marx’s earlier method of kinetic materialism with the methodology he lays out at the beginning of Capital. Furthermore, and more generally, it shows that Marx’s critical method in Capital has nothing to do with any sort of determinism, reductionism, or anthropocentrism. Instead, this chapter argues that Marx’s method is consistent with and anticipates the method of new materialism. Marx offers new materialism a historical new materialism in which history plays an important role in shaping the present. This chapter offers a close reading of the first few lines of Capital and a new materialist theory of critique.","PeriodicalId":314656,"journal":{"name":"Marx in Motion","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Marx in Motion","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197526477.003.0003","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The aim of this chapter is to show the previously unacknowledged continuity between Marx’s earlier method of kinetic materialism with the methodology he lays out at the beginning of Capital. Furthermore, and more generally, it shows that Marx’s critical method in Capital has nothing to do with any sort of determinism, reductionism, or anthropocentrism. Instead, this chapter argues that Marx’s method is consistent with and anticipates the method of new materialism. Marx offers new materialism a historical new materialism in which history plays an important role in shaping the present. This chapter offers a close reading of the first few lines of Capital and a new materialist theory of critique.