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7:00 PM, EDT
Karl Marx's "Capital" with Paul Reitter & Paul North
Book Talk|GEGENÜBER Talks – Literature Across Borders
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Online Online
- Language English
- Price Free of charge
- Part of series: GEGENÜBER TALKS
Contribution from the Goethe-Institut New York
Paul Reitter, translator of Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 (Princeton University Press) and Paul North, editor, present an engaging discussion about the context and legacy of this fundamental work of German political economy and philosophy.
They will address a series of fundamental questions about Capital. How did Marx come to write it? How did his thought evolve as he was writing it? What did he hope to accomplish by writing it? And, of course: What does he argue in the book’s different sections? What is the relation between its mode of presentation and mode of argumentation? Why read Capital today?
Paul Reitter received the 2025 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize, funded by the Friends of Goethe New York, for his translation of Marx's Capital, Volume 1, and will give a presentation on Marx this month at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
About the participants
Paul Reitter
Paul Reitter received his PhD in German studies from the University of California, Berkeley. For more than twenty years, he has taught in the German department at Ohio State University, where he served as the director of the humanities institute from 2012 to 2018. He writes mainly about German-Jewish culture, the history of the humanities, and translation, and in his own translation projects he has focused on retranslating and reframing texts that deliver philosophical critique and social criticism in enduringly exciting ways. His work has been supported by fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Paul North
Paul North is Maurice Natanson Professor of German at Yale University. He teaches critical theory and has written several books, including Bizarre Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness (Zone Books, 2022) and The Standpoint of Marx’s Capital (forthcoming). He is co-editor of the new translation of Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Princeton, 2024).
