Preface: The Limits of Capital Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Introduction: Reading Capital Beyond Its Limits 1 The Limits of Reading Capital 2 An Act of Theoretical Repression 3 For Marx in Its Limits 4 Reading Capital 's Process of Exposition 5 Hallucinatory Empiricism 6 Reading Capital 's Apodictic Structure 7 The Topography of the Attributes 8 The Theoretical Danger of Monism 9 Against Monism, the Return of Substance 10 The Theoretical Basis of Theoreticism2 What Is Materialist Analysis? Pierre Macherey's Spinozist Epistemology 1 Reading Capital 's Materialist Dialectic 2 A Theoretical Prolegomenon to the Materialist Analysis of Texts 3 Textual Production in a Materialist Mode 4 On the Inadequacy of the Structuralist Combinatory 5 Toward a Materialist Analysis of Form 6 Against Materialism, en matérialiste 7 Reading Capital as a Theory of Literary Production 8 Materialism in a Spinozist Way 9 On Telling Stories 10 The Persistent Problem of the Attributes 11 Reading Capital in a Materialist Way3 The Positive Logics of Capital : On Spinoza and the Elimination of the Negative Dialectic of Totality from Marx's Revisions to Capital , 1857-1875 1 The Discontinuity of the Attributes 2 Totality, Negation, Contradiction 3 Totality 4 The Imaginary Presuppositions of Systematic Dialectics 5 The Problem with Totality 6 The Systematic Dissonance of Capital 7 Negation and Contradiction 8 Constituting the Commodity 9 From Dialectical Contradiction to Additive Synthesis 10 Toward an Additive Demonstration, Without Contradiction 11 When Does Socially Necessary Labour Exist? 12 The Raw Materials of Marx's Additive Synthetic Method 13 On Ignorance and Common Notions 14 Marx's Spinozist Theory of Knowledge4 Toward an Axiomatic Analysis of the Commodity in Badiou and Marx 1 1968: Logical Materialism 2 Bolzano and the Formalisation of Axiomatic Thought 3 Ontological Materialism in Its Limits 4 The Displacement of Capital 5 A Materialist Axiomatic5 Capital, Logic of the World 1 Badiou's Lacan, Badiou's (Marx) 2 'Qu'en Est-Il De La Logique?': Reading Logics of Worlds After Capital 3 Logics of (Capitalist) Worlds 4 Reading Capital as the Logic of a World Conclusion: Theory and Practice Today References Index.