Translating Marx's Capital in the 21st Century: Notes on the New English Edition

Date and Time

February 9, 2023
04:00PM - 05:30PM EST

Location

Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History
Translating Marx's Capital in the 21st Century: Notes on the New English Edition

The accomplished scholar and translator Paul Reitter, known for works such as The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2008), On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred (Princeton University Press, 2012), and The Kraus Project with Jonathan Franzen (Macmillan Publishers, 2013), will offer his reflections on his new project, an annotated English edition of Karl Marx's Capital (Vol. 1). Reitter's book will include his own translation of the text and will be published by Penguin Books.