This edited volume brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the traces of the idea of "Real Abstraction" in Marx's thought from the early to late writings as well as the theoretical and practical consequences of this notion in capitalist social system. Divided into two main parts, first reconstructs Marx's notion of “Real Abstraction” and the influences of earlier thinkers (Berkeley, Petty, Franklin, Feuerbach, Hegel) on his thoughts as well as the further elaborations of this concept in later Marxist thinkers (Sohn-Rethel, Lukács, Lefebvre, Adorno, Postone). Part II then considers the reverberations of the notion in the field of critical theory from a more abstract critique of capitalist social relations to a more concrete understanding of historical movements. Taken together, the chapters in this volume offer a focused look at the concept of Real Abstraction in Marx. weiterlesen