Showing all 2 books
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Louis Althusser enjoyed virtually unrivalled status as the foremost living Marxist philosopher. Today, he is remembered as the scourge and severest critic of ‘humanist’ or Hegelian Marxism, as the proponent of rigorously scientific socialism, and as the theorist who posited a sharp rupture—an epistemological break—between the early and the late Marx. This collection of texts from the period 1945–53 turns these ...
“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 ...