Capital/Today: A roundtable discussion of the new English translation of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital

Wednesday, October 15, 2024
10am-12pm
Room 9205
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue, NYC

Capital/Today

A roundtable discussion of the new English translation of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital (Volume One).

Featuring:
Paul Reitter, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures,
Ohio State University
Paul North, Chair and Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures,
Yale University
Maria Luisa Mendonça, CPCP, CUNY
David Harvey, CPCP, CUNY

Peter Hitchcock, CPCP, CUNY (moderator)

Reitter (translator and editor) and North (editor) worked for several years to produce the first English translation of Capital in a half century. The panel is particularly interested in not just how the project came to be, but in what it means to have a new translation of Capital available today, when capitalism remains globally present but forms of anti-capitalism have changed demonstrably. Can a new translation affirm that Capital is as dynamic as its subject?

This event is organized by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics.
It is Free and Open to the Public.