
Paul Reitter on Karl Marx's Capital
About the Event:
Joined by Daniel Burnfin of the University of Chicago, renowned scholar of Germanic languages and literature Paul Reitter discusses his new translation of Karl Marx's Capital: Critique of Political Economy. As the first translation based on Marx’s self-edited German edition, Reitter has provided the world with the new authoritative version of this seminal work. Diving into the mind of Marx like few others can, Reitter and Burnfin provide Chicago Humanities with an invaluable perspective on Marx, communism, and their complicated legacy.
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Paul Reitter
Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Paul Reitter is professor of German studies at Ohio State University. He has written four books, mainly in the area of Germa...

Daniel Burnfin
Humanities Teaching Fellow
Daniel Burnfin is a Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD in Germanic Studies a...






