Reading Capital

Reading Capital
Cover of the 1966 edition
AuthorsLouis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Macherey
Original titleLire le Capital
TranslatorsBen Brewster
David Fernbach
LanguageFrench
SubjectDas Kapital
PublisherFrançois Maspero, New Left Books
Publication date
1965
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1970
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages340 (abridged English translation)
565 (complete English translation)
ISBN978-1-78478-141-5

Reading Capital (French: Lire le Capital) is a 1965 book about the philosopher Karl Marx's Das Kapital by the philosophers Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, and Jacques Rancière, the sociologist Roger Establet, and the critic Pierre Macherey. The book was first published in France by François Maspero. An abridged English translation was published in 1970, and an unabridged translation in 2015. The book was influential among intellectuals.