Althusser, Louis
Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays - New York Aakar Books 2016 - xvii, 173 p
No figure among the western Marxist theoreticians has loomed larger in the postwar period than Louis Althusser. A rebel against the Catholic tradition in which he was raised, Althusser studied philosophy and later joined both the faculty of the Ecole normal superieure and the French Communist Party in 1948. Viewed as a ""structuralist Marxist, "" Althusser was as much admired for his independence of intellect as he was for his rigorous defense of Marx. The latter was best illustrated in For Marx (1965), and Reading Capital (1968). These works, along with Lenin and Philosophy (1971) had an enor
Translated from the French
9788187879862 (PB)
Philosophy, Marxist
Political Ideologies Communism & Socialism
330 / ALT
Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays - New York Aakar Books 2016 - xvii, 173 p
No figure among the western Marxist theoreticians has loomed larger in the postwar period than Louis Althusser. A rebel against the Catholic tradition in which he was raised, Althusser studied philosophy and later joined both the faculty of the Ecole normal superieure and the French Communist Party in 1948. Viewed as a ""structuralist Marxist, "" Althusser was as much admired for his independence of intellect as he was for his rigorous defense of Marx. The latter was best illustrated in For Marx (1965), and Reading Capital (1968). These works, along with Lenin and Philosophy (1971) had an enor
Translated from the French
9788187879862 (PB)
Philosophy, Marxist
Political Ideologies Communism & Socialism
330 / ALT