A prominent member of the French structuralist movement, Louis Althusser was influential for reinvigorating Marxist thought in France in the 196Os with celebrated works such as For Marx and Reading Capital. Yet many readers are not as familiar with the profound impact of psychoanalysis on Althusser'[...]
The publication of Louis Althusser's autobiography, The Future Lasts Forever, shattered the myth of Althusser as austere structural Marxist. It not only illuminated the private life of this public thinker, but suggested that his previously published works could be read very differently. Louis Althus[...]
Best known for his theories of ideology and its impact on politics and culture, Louis Althusser revolutionized Marxist theory. His writing changed the face of literary and cultural studies, and continues to influence political modes of criticism such as feminism, postcolonialism and queer theory. Be[...]
What is perhaps Louis Althusser's most famous text, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," published in 1970 and very influential ever since, was an extract of a much longer book published in French years after his death. Published now for the first time in English, "On the Reproduction of Ca[...]
A milestone in the development of post-war Marxist thought.
The publication For Marx and Reading Capital established Louis Althusser as one of the most controversial figures in the Western Marxist tradition, and one of the most influential renewals of Marxist thought. Collected here are Althusser s most significant philosophical writings from the late sixtie[...]
Reading Capital is an attempt to topple the entire edifice of Western Marxism, and rebuild it from the original foundations. Establishing a rigorous program of symptomatic reading that cuts through the silences and lacunae of Capital to reveal its philosophical core, Louis Althusser interprets Marx [...]
In the late 1970s and 1980s, Louis Althusser endured a period of intense mental instability during which he murdered his wife and was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Spanning this deeply troubling period, this fourth and final volume of political and philosophical writings reveals Althusser wre[...]
In the first two essays of this book, Louis Althusser analyses the work of two of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment - Montesquieu and Rousseau. He shows that although they made considerable advances towards establishing a science of politics, particularly in comparison with the theorists of[...]
A milestone in postwar Marxist thought, containing Althusser's influential arguments on the epistemological break and anti-humanism[...]
"We do not publish our own drafts, that is, our own mistakes, but we do sometimes publish other people's," Louis Althusser once observed of Marx's early writings. Among his own posthumously released drafts, one, at least, is incontestably neither mistake nor out-take: the text of his lecture course [...]
This sixth batch features some of the best authors in the Verso canon, including Theodor Adorno, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Baudrillard and Henri Lefebvre. It also includes long out of print titles by authors experiencing a renaissance such as Lucien Goldmann and Maurice Godelier. These are beautifully [...]
Collected here are Althusser's most significant philosophical writings from 1965 to 1978. 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.[...]
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Inledning
Från Kapitalet till Marx filosofi
Kapitalets objekt (Inledning; Marx och hans upptäckter; Den klassiska ekonomins förtjänster; Den klassiska ekonomins brister: Skiss till begreppet historisk tid; Marxismen är inte en historicism)[...]
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Kapitalets objekt, forts. (Vetenskapsteoretiska satser i Kapitalet; Den politiska ekonomins objekt; Marx kritik; Marx väldiga teoretiska revolution; Appendix: Det ideala genomsnittet och övergångsformerna
den historiska materialismens grundläggande begrepp (Från[...]