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 Andre 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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