A Contemporary History of Marx's Capital

Paolo Favilli provides both students and scholars with an original reading of themes and issues found in Karl Marx's Das Kapital and its connections with present-day challenges. Favilli employs a didactic approach stimulating student engagement and learning opportunities in the classroom.

Paolo Favilli is retired Professor of Contemporary History and Theory of Historical Research at Genoa University, Italy, where he is also former Director of the Department of Humanistic Studies. His main research focus is the history of Marxism, to which he has devoted numerous essays and volumes, including Il socialismo italiano e la teoria economica di Marx (1892-1902) (1980), Herausgabe und Verbreitung del Werke von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels in Italien (1988), Storia del marxismo italiano. Dalle origini alla grande guerra (1996), Marxismo e storia. Saggio sull'innovazione storiografica in Italia (2006), Il marxismo e le sue storie (2016), and A proposito de 'Il capitale'..., Il lungo presente e i miei studenti. Corso di storia contemporanea (2021).