Intended to contribute, in his own words, to a "left-wing critique of Stalinism that would help put some substance back into the revolutionary project here in the West," they are the record of a shared history. At the same time they chart Althusser's critique of the theoretical system unveiled in his own major works, and his developing practice of philosophy as a "revolutionary weapon." Attesting to the unique place which Althusser has occupied in modern intellectual history-between a tradition of Marxism which he sought to reconstruct, and a "post-Marxism" which has eclipsed its predecessor-these texts are indispensable reading.
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A collection of essays by the leading French thinker
Louis Althusser influenced so many discourses, actions and existences by the radiant and provocative force of his thought.
Collected here are Althusser's most significant philosophical writings from 1965 to 1978

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ISBN
9781844677894
Publisert
2012-01-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
352 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
132 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
308

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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.