Book Review Symposium: "Seventeen Contradictions & the End of Capitalism" by David Harvey (original) (raw)
2015, Human Geography
In his newest book—Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism—David Harvey sets out to understand not the contradictions of capitalism, but those of capitalism’s economic engine—capital. He wants to uncover how and why capital works the way it does, “and why it might stutter and stall and sometimes appear to be on the verge of collapse. [He] also want[s] to show why this economic engine should be replaced, and with what” (p. 11). This book review symposium brings Harvey into conversation with six prominent figures in contemporary Marxist geography— Ipsita Chatterjee, Elaine Hartwick, Don Mitchell, Dick Peet, Sue Roberts, and Erik Swyngedouw—to discuss this book in particular, and Harvey’s contribution to radical geography more generally. Concluding the symposium, David Harvey responds to the these commentaries and offers a wide-ranging reflection on what he has termed his “Marx Project.”
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