Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Chapter One The Practical Materialist -- Appendix Political Historiography. Re-Reading the Eighteenth Brumaire -- Chapter Two A New Phenotype -- Chapter Three The Phantasmagoria and the Temporalities of Capital -- Appendix Layered Historiography. Re-Reading the So-Called Primitive Accumulation -- References -- Index.

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The book rethinks the central categories of Marx's work beyond any philosophy of history, providing a critical analysis of his political and theoretical development from his early writings, to the elaboration of the critique of political economy and his final anthropological studies on pre-individualistic and communist forms. The study aims to integrate the paradigm of the spatialisation of time with that of the temporalisation of space, showing how capital places diverse temporalities into hierarchies that incessantly produce and reproduce new forms of class struggle. An adequate historiographical paradigm for globalised capitalism has to consider the plurality of temporal layers that are combined and come into conflict in the violently unifying historical dimension of modernity.

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