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Title

Marx's theory of the genesis of money : how, why, and through what is a commodity money? / by Samezō Kuruma ; translated and edited by Michael Schauerte.

Author

Kuruma, Samezō

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Additional Authors

Schauerte, Michael

Description

viii, 194 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

In the present volume, the first of the author's works to be translated into English, Samezo Kuruma examines the different angles from which Marx analyses the commodity and money in the first two chapters of Capital, Volume I. Kuruma carefully explains each of the theoretical questions raised by Marx, particularly the theory of the value-form, which unravels the mystery surrounding money. The theoretical knowledge Marx gains from his analysis of the commodity is the linchpin of 'Capital', but he recognises that this presents the reader with the 'greatest difficulty' just as 'beginnings are always difficult in all sciences'. Kuruma helps to ease this difficulty by making the reader clearly aware of how and why Marx poses his theoretical questions.00This work includes an English translation of the full text of Kuruma's book, 'Kachikeitai-ron to kokankate-ron' (Theory of the Value Form and Theory of the Exchange Process) (Iwanami Shoten, 1957) and a slightly abridged version of Part I of 'Kahei-ron' (Theory of Money) (Otsuki Shoten, 1979). It is a substantially revised edition of the English translation under the same title, 'Marx's Theory of the Genesis of Money', that was self-published by the translator (Outskirts Press, 2008).

Series Statement

Historical materialism book series ; Volume 154

Uniform Title

• Kachi keitairon to kōkan kateiron. English
• Historical materialism book series ; 154.

Alternative Title

Kachi keitairon to kōkan kateiron.

Subject

• Money
• Marxian economics
• Value
• value (economic concept)
• Marxismus
• Werttheorie
• Geld

Note

• Translated from the Japanese.
• "Contains the full text of Kuruma's book, Kachikeitai-ron to kokankate-ron (Theory of the Value Form and Theory of the Exchange Process) published by Iwanami Shoten in 1957; and a slightly abridged version of Part I of his 1979 book Kahei-ron (Theory of Money)"--Notes on the text.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Theory of the Value Form and Theory of the Exchange Process -- Theory of the Value Form and Theory of the Exchange Process -- Why is the Want of the Commodity Owner Abstracted from in the Theory of the Value Form? (A Response to the View of Kozo Uno) -- Uno's First Argument -- Uno's Second Argument -- Uno's Third Argument -- Marx's Theory of the Genesis of Money (An Interview Conducted / Teinosuke otani) -- The Questions 'How, Why, and through What' (The Genesis of Money) -- Riddle of the Money Form and the Riddle of Money -- Difference between the First and the Second Edition of Capital -- The Significance of the 'Why Question' (The Particularity of Commodity Production and the Essence of Value) -- In What Sense is the Simple Value Form 'Accidental'? -- The 'Detour' of Value Expression -- The Meaning of the 'Formal Content of the Relative Expression of Value' (Hegel's Theory of Judgment and Marx's Theory of the Value Form) -- How the Development of the Value Form Unfolds (Neither a Historical Development, Nor the 'Self-Development of a Concept') -- The Meaning of Abstracting from the Individual Want of the Commodity Owner (Nobuteru Takeda's Criticism of Kuruma) -- What is the 'Dialectic' in the Case of the Value Form?.

ISBN

• 9789004322387
• 9004322388

LCCN

2017039179

OCLC

• on1005057401
• 1005057401
• SCSB-9349077

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library