Rethinking Capital

This book develops a comprehensive systematic economic theory, conceiving how the dynamic of market relations generates an economy dominated by the competitive process of individual profit-seeking enterprises. The author shows how, contrary to classical political economy and contemporary economics, the theory of capital is an a priori normative account properly belonging to ethics. Exposing and overcoming the limits of the economic conceptions of Hegel and Marx, Rethinking Capital determines how the system of capitals shapes economic freedom, jeopardizing the very rights in whose exercise it consists. Winfield thereby provides the understanding required to guide the private and public interventions with which capitalism can be given a human face.

Richard Dien Winfield is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, USA.  He is President of the Society for Systematic Philosophy and past President of both the Hegel Society of America and the Metaphysical Society of America.  His previous eighteen books include Reason and Justice (1988), The Just Economy (1988), Law in Civil Society (1995), Systematic Aesthetics (1995), The Just Family (1998), The Just State: Rethinking Self-Government (2005), Modernity, Religion, and the War on Terror (2007), Hegel and Mind: Rethinking Philosophical Psychology (2010), The Living Mind: From Psyche to Consciousness (2011), Hegel's Science of Logic: A Critical Rethinking in Thirty Lectures (2012), Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures (2013),  Hegel and the Future of Systematic Philosophy (2014), and The Intelligent Mind: On the Origin and Constitution of Discursive Thought (2015).