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In this volume, Marx’s Theory of the Genesis of Money. How, Why, and Through What is a Commodity Money?, the first of the author’s works to be translated into English, Samezō 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. This work includes an English translation of the full text of Kuruma’s book, Kachikeitai-ron to kōkankate-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).

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Author:   Samezō Kuruma ,  Teinosuke Ōtani ,  Edward Michael Schauerte
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   154
Weight:   0.459kg
ISBN:  

9789004322387

ISBN 10:   9004322388
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   07 December 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Language:   Japanese

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on the Text Introduction to This Edition Theory of the Value Form and Theory of the Exchange Process Preface 1 Theory of the Value Form and Theory of the Exchange Process 2 Why is the Want of the Commodity Owner Abstracted from in the Theory of the Value Form? (A Response to the View of Kōzō Uno)  Uno’s First Argument  Uno’s Second Argument  Uno’s Third Argument Marx’s Theory of the Genesis of Money (An Interview Conducted by Teinosuke Ōtani) 1 The Questions ‘How, Why and through What’ (The Genesis of Money) 2 Riddle of the Money Form and the Riddle of Money 3 Difference between the First and Second Edition of Capital 4 The Significance of the ‘Why Question’ (The Particularity of Commodity Production and the Essence of Value) 5 In What Sense is the Simple Value Form ‘Accidental’? 6 The ‘Detour’ of Value Expression 7 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) 8 How the Development of the Value Form Unfolds (Neither a Historical Development Nor the ‘Self-Development of a Concept’) 9 The Meaning of Abstracting from the Individual Want of the Commodity Owner (Nobuteru Takeda’s Criticism of Kuruma) 10 What is the ‘Dialectic’ in the Case of the Value Form? Bibliography Index

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Samezō Kuruma, Ph.D., was a professor emeritus at Hosei University, Tokyo. He edited the multi-volume Marx-Lexikon zur Politischen Ökonomie (Otsuki Shoten). Other published works include Keizaigaku shi (History of Political Economy) and Kyoko kenkyu (Investigation of Crisis). Michael Schauerte, MA (2001), Hitotsubashi University. Translated works include Samezō Kuruma’s “A Critique of Political Economy” (2007, Research in Political Economy) and Ōsugi Sakae’s My Escapes from Japan (2014, Doyosha). He writes regularly for the monthly Socialist Standard.

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