Jorge Grespan is a professor in the Department of History of the University of São Paulo in Brazil. He studied Economics (1980) and History (1982) at the University of São Paulo, obtained a doctoral degree in Philosophy at the University of Campinas in Brazil (1994) and a postdoctoral degree at the Free University of Berlin (1997). He is the author of books and articles in Portuguese and Spanish on the Marxist critique of political economy and Marxist Theory of History. He has also written on the colonial history of Latin America and Latin American Marxist thought. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The way that classical political economy put the articulation of the moments in the reproduction of the capital remained as privileged object of the criticism made by Karl Marx from 1844 until his death. In the Manuscripts of 1844 (Economic and Philosophical), Marx points to the lack of development of the categorial presuppositions of bourgeois economy as something to be overcome by criti…
This research investigates the history of agrarian reform in Chile, focusing on peasant education projects run by different public and private institutions, which struggle to form a new rural subjectivity consistent with their horizons of economic transformation. The concentration of Chile's agrarian property in the 1950s and 1960s was also formed by "cultural latifundios". Rural illitera…
The works searches the origins of Marxs concept of money through the comparison of three of his works: The Grundrisse, Critic of Political-economy and The Capital.
The historical discourse of the eighteenth-century presents itself both as a rhetorical operation and as empirical research. This Postdoctoral Research project aims to pursue the analysis of the eighteenth-century historical output by proposing to see it as the locus of a fundamental interrelation of representation and method. More specifically, the research will investigate the uses and …
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The research I intend to make at the Scholl for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London has as its main purpose to survey and to analyse the most relevant works published on the concept of crisis in the theoretical field of Marxism since 2008. It must be an actualization of the studies I made for my doctoral thesis presented in 1994 and published in 1998 with the t…
Within this project we intend to increase the theoretical-methodological consistency of the PhD research (supported by FAPESP) on the history of the political struggles and popular expectations about the agrarian reform in Chile (1967-1973) and the counter-reform policy led by Pinochet's government (1973-1978). Three main objectives guide us: (1) restore the strategic debate of the Popula…
The concept of "critique" of Marx will be analyzed in relation to the critique of Political Economy and to the concept of "crisis", according to the Capital, Book III. It will be necessary therefore to define the meaning of "categorical presentation" in Marx on the grounds of real value metamorphosis in capitalism, and how it is then linked to mental "representations" of social agents and…
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