Marx e a literatura em O capital

Abstract

From Adorno’s reflection on the irrevocable character of the expressive element in theoretical activity, one wonders about the presence of fictional literary allusions in Marx’s work, Capital, and what roles they perform in his argumentation; and also to what extent this form of dialogue contributes to foster non-hierarchical links between the conceptual text and the literary fiction. Marx’s textual composition represents an experimentation of dialectical logic and bears witnesses to what Adorno calls the truth and non-truth of the conceptual exercise and of its tense and complementary relationship with expression. This position is associated with the struggle against the narrowness and onesidedness of human development resulting from the social division of labor in capitalism that fractures human capacities and faculties. It carries within itself the utopia of a renewed knowledge that does not submit to the force of the identity of the principle of value.