One reads him with excitement. There is no mystery about his capacity to inspire the intelligent young.

- Eric Hobsbawm,

Althusser traversed so many lives-so many personal, historical, philosophical and political adventures; marked, inflected, influenced so many discourses, actions and existences by the radiant and provocative force of his thought-that the most diverse and contradictory accounts could never exhaust their source.

- Jacques Derrida,

The publication of For Marx and Reading Capital established Louis Althusser as one of the most influential figures in the Western Marxist tradition. On Ideology charts Althusser's critique of the theoretical system unveiled in his own major works, and his developing practice of philosophy as a "revolutionary weapon."
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The classic analysis of how particular political and cultural ideas come to dominate society
The classic analysis of how particular political and cultural ideas come to dominate society.
Part of the acclaimed Radical Thinkers series.

Product details

ISBN
9781788738552
Published
2020-03-24
Publisher
Verso Books
Weight
159 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
12 mm
Age
UU, UP, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
192

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Biographical note

Louis Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in France in 1990. He taught Philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party.