 | Capital: An Abridged Edition (Oxford World's Classics) by Karl Marx
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £6.54 This abridged version is good and cuts out many of the lengthier footnotes; to study it you need the proper edition though.
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 | Capital: Critique of Political Economy v. 1 (Classics S.) by Karl Marx
Buy new: £10.23 / Used from: £7.50 This is the version required for close reading. All the various prefaces and comments are here, plus it's more accurate and cheaper than the collected works version.
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 | Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works: 35 by Karl Marx
Buy used from: £118.95 Here we have the commodity-fetish collectors version. Nicely bound, and you may find one printed in Moscow! Check the publisher's website for corrections, and to study buy Penguin's edition.
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 | Transcritique: On Kant and Marx by K Karatani
Buy new: £16.10 / Used from: £17.56 A great reading of Capital's first three chapters (which are the really really important ones), and inspired Slavoj Zizek to write "Parallax View."
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 | Introduction to Marx's Capital by David Harvey
Buy new: £8.79 Harvey has taught Das Kapital to university students for 40 years. A web-search for "Reading Capital Harvey" will bring up free videos of his lecture series.
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 | Reading Capital (Radical Thinkers 4) by Louis Althusser
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.79 This is only a partial version of what Althusser and his students produced; it has many problems, but is still worth a look. It can be found free online too.
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 | The Sublime Object of Ideology (Phronesis) by Slavoj Zizek
Buy used from: £25.00 May well be Zizek's best; not about Das Kapital per se, but has innovative readings of commodity fetishism and value theory melded with Lacano-Freudian readings.
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 | A Future for Marxism?: Althusser, the Analytical Turn and the Revival of Socialist Theory by Andrew Levine
Buy new: £52.20 / Used from: £64.10 I'm not sure Levine has read Das Kapital closely, and he refers too much to the "Communist Manifesto"; BUT his last chapter is erudite and insightful.
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 | Exploring Marx's Capital (Historical Materialism Book) by Jacques Bidet
Buy new: £19.99 / Used from: £15.78 The PhD thesis behind this book is now 35 years old, yet still this is a great biography of Das Kapital and analysis of its content.
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 | Marx's "Das Kapital": A Biography - A Book That Shook the World (Books That Shook the World) by Francis Wheen
Buy new: £4.81 / Used from: £2.83 Wheen essentially does a hatchet job on Das Kapital. If you want to be reassured Marx is no threat to your liberal, suburban conceptions of economy read this book.
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 | Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation) by Immanuel Kant
Buy new: £17.99 / Used from: £13.99 Karatani suggests this work, not Hegel's, is that which should be cross-referenced with Das Kapital. Here we find Marx's ethico-critical background.
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 | Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Buy new: £5.39 Situationism has become fairly lame, however this book is like a manifesto spawned by Das Kapital for the media age.
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 | Spectres of Marx (Routledge Classics) by Jacques Derrida
Buy new: £10.56 / Used from: £9.94 Derrida seemed by the end to realise his deconstruction was caught in a law of diminishing returns once the OstBloc collapsed; in this book he reaches back to Marx in a kind of Left post-structuralism
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