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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.
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Louis Althusser (1918-1990) took his degree in philosophy in the Ecole Normale Supérieure and later became Secrétaire of the school. He is the author of several books including The Future Lasts Forever, Montesquieu, le Politique et l'Historie, For Marx, and Reading Capital.
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Book Description Hardbound. Condition: As New. Reprint. Contents Introduction by Fredric Jameson. Foreword. 1. Philosophy as a revolutionary weapon. 2. Lenin and philosophy appendix. 3. Preface to capital volume one the rudiments to a critical bibliography. 4. Lenin before Hegel. 5. Ideology and ideological state apparatus (Notes towards an investigation). 6. Appendix. 7. Freud and Lacan. 8. A Letter on art in reply to Andre Daspre. 9. Cremonini painter of the abstract. Index. Today we are in a position to return to Althusser's work in a new way and make a new assessment of it writes Frederic Jameson in his introduction to this new edition of Louis Althusser's Lenin and Philosophy. No figure loomed larger than Althusser in Marxist thought in the west during the 1960s and 70s the decades in which the Soviet model was discredited in the west and new avenues opened up in Marxist philosophy and politics. Althusser stood out for his attempt to define a Marxist philosophy that was rigorous scientific and revolutionary. In the process he set new standards of argumentation for Marxist theory. As Jameson shows in his introduction the essays that had so massive and fertile an influence in those decades continue to speak to us today. From these essays there emerges a conception of Marxism as something more and other than a philosophy. Its concepts are also forms of practice so that one cannot simply debate them in a disinterested philosophical way without the uncomfortable intervention of practical positions and commitments. This classic work covers the broad range of Althusser's interests and contributions in philosophy economics psychology aesthetics and politics. It includes his major essay on Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. This path breaking analysis of ideology has inspired a range of recent approaches to this field which remains central to our own time. Lenin and Philosophy also contains Althusser's essay on Lenin's study of Hegel Freud and Lacan his Letter on Art and Cremonini Painter of the Abstract. The book opens with a 1968 interview in which he discusses his personal political and intellectual history. 174 pp. Seller Inventory # 61482
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