Louis Althusser And The Traditions Of French Marxism

Author : William S. Lewis
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739113073
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism written by William S. Lewis and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a careful exposition of French Marxism, William Lewis places Althusser and his thought alongside the pre- and post-war French communist intellectual climate: the result is an excellent and unique work. Part theoretical treatise on some of Althusser's more complicated and less explored ideas, part intellectual history, Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism is, in total, an important text for philosophy, French and francophone studies, political thought, cultural studies, marxist thought, and several other disciplines interested in the intellectual life and times of the twientieth century.

Author : Louis Althusser
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788739248
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Ideology written by Louis Althusser and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Author : Louis Althusser
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178873176X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lenin and Philosophy written by Louis Althusser and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 enormous influence on the New Left of the 1960s and continues to influence modern Marxist scholarship. This classic work, which to date has sold more than 30,000 copies, covers the range of Louis Althusser's interests and contributions in philosophy, economics, psychology, aesthetics, and political science. Marx, in Althusser's view, was subject in his earlier writings to the ruling ideology of his day. Thus for Althusser, the interpretation of Marx involves a repudiation of all efforts to draw from Marx's early writings a view of Marx as a humanist and historicist. Lenin and Philosophy also contains Althusser's essay on Lenin's study of Hegel; a major essay on the state, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, Freud and Lacan: A letter on Art in Reply to Andr Daspre, and Cremonini, Painter of the Abstract. The book opens with a 1968 interview in which Althusser discusses his personal, political, and intellectual history.

Author : Louis Althusser
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789600316
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists written by Louis Althusser and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Gregory Elliott
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789607299
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Althusser written by Gregory Elliott and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the international renaissance of Marxist theory during the 1960s and early 1970s few projects generated as much excitement or controversy as Louis Althusser's 'return to Marx'. One of the most ambitious enterprises in the post-war history of Marxism, Althusser's reconstruction of Marx's doctrine was heralded as a new start in some quarters, dismissed as a refurbished Stalinism in others. Today, more than twenty years after the appearance of his major works and amidst the profound contemporary crisis of Marxism, Althusser is the victim, rather than the beneficiary, of philosophical fashion. Paradoxically, the oblivion into which he has now fallen affords the opportunity fora return to Althusser: a reassessment that advances beyond the unconsidered responses that Marxist commentators have often given to his work. In this first full-scale study in English of Althusser's career, Gregory Elliott draws on a wide range of untranslated material, surveying the political and intellectual context of Althusser's initiative in For Marx and Reading Capital. He analyses the nature of the Marxism developed in these works and charts their author's subsequent evolution, concluding with a balance-sheet of the French Marxist's contribution to historical materialism. At once sympathetic and critical Althusser: The Detour of Theory will establish itself as the standard introduction to its subject.

Author : Louis Althusser
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789600030
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For Marx written by Louis Althusser and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of "structuralist Marxism" which was presided over by the fascinating and enigmatic figure of Louis Althusser. Structuralism constituted an intellectual revolution in the 1960s and 1970s and radically transformed the way philosophy, political and social theory, history, science, and aesthetics were discussed and thought about. For Marx was a key contribution to that process and it fundamentally recast the way in which many people understood Marx and Marxism. This book contains the classic statements of Althusser's analysis of the young Marx and the importance of Feuerbach during this formative period, of his thesis of the "epistomological break" between the early and the late Marx, and of his conception of dialectics, contradiction and "overdetermination." Also included is a study of the materialist theater of Bertolazzi and Brecht and the critique of humanist readings of Marxism. Since his death in 1990, Althusser's legacy has come under renewed examination and it is increasingly recognized that the influence of his ideas has been wider and deeper than previously thought: reading For Marx, in its audacity, originality and rigor, will explain why this impact was so significant.

Author : Louis Althusser
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583673725
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays written by Louis Althusser and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-11-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 enormous influence on the New Left of the 1960s and continues to influence modern Marxist scholarship. This classic work, which to date has sold more than 30,000 copies, covers the range of Louis Althusser's interests and contributions in philosophy, economics, psychology, aesthetics, and political science. Marx, in Althusser's view, was subject in his earlier writings to the ruling ideology of his day. Thus for Althusser, the interpretation of Marx involves a repudiation of all efforts to draw from Marx's early writings a view of Marx as a "humanist" and "historicist." Lenin and Philosophy also contains Althusser's essay on Lenin's study of Hegel; a major essay on the state, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," "Freud and Lacan: A letter on Art in Reply to André Daspre," and "Cremonini, Painter of the Abstract." The book opens with a 1968 interview in which Althusser discusses his personal, political, and intellectual history.

Author : Nathan Coombs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474416047
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and Event written by Nathan Coombs and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathan Coombs demonstrates that the Marxist science of history has been reimagined by a strand of contemporary French theory after Louis Althusser. Taking a comparative approach, Coombs explores the technical details of both traditions' historical sciences.

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134337868
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louis Althusser written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis Althusser
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859845073
Total Pages : 386 pages
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Download or read book The Humanist Controversy and Other Writings (1966-67) written by Louis Althusser and published by Verso. This book was released on 2003 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes key texts from one of France's most famous philosophers, which intervene in the debate between "the humanist" and the structuralists.