On the Nature of Marx's Things: Translation as Necrophilology

On the Nature of Marx's Things traces to Marx's earliest writings a Lucretian practice that Lezra calls necrophilological translation.

Author: Jacques Lezra
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 03/27/2018
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780823279432

About the Author
Jacques Lezra (Author)
Jacques Lezra is Professor and Chair of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His books include Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought; Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic (translated into Spanish and Chinese); and Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe. With Emily Apter and Michael Wood, he is the co-editor of Barbara Cassin's Dictionary of Untranslatables.