{"title":"Louis Althusser","description":"Louis Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in France in 1990. He taught philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party. His books include For Marx; Reading Capital (with Etienne Balibar); Essays in Ideology; Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx; Machiavelli and Us; and The Spectre of Hegel.","products":[{"product_id":"the-spectre-of-hegel-early-writings-paperback","title":"The Spectre Of Hegel: Early Writings - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eLouis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling with the intellectual inheritance of Hegel and Catholicism. \u003ci\u003eThe Spectre of Hegel \u003c\/i\u003ecollects the writings of the young Althusser, before his final epistemological break with the philosopher's work in 1953. Including his famed essay 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses', \u003ci\u003eThe Spectre of Hegel \u003c\/i\u003egives a unique insight into Althusser's engagement with a philosophy he would later renounce.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377591288031,"sku":"9781781681510","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/tPY97BXryD9781781681510.webp?v=1789236136"},{"product_id":"philosophy-of-the-encounter-later-writings-1978-87-paperback","title":"Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 wrestling in a creative and unorthodox fashion with a whole series of theoretical problems to produce some of his very finest work. In his profound exploration of questions of determinism and contingency, Althusser developed a \"philosophy of the encounter,\" which he links to a hidden and subterranean tradition in the history of Western thought which stretches from Epicurus through Spinoza and Machiavelli to Marx, Derrida and Heidegger.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377600266463,"sku":"9781844675531","price":34.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/bV3xt2dmd09781844675531.webp?v=1789236160"},{"product_id":"philosophy-and-the-spontaneous-philosophy-of-the-scientists-paperback","title":"Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe publication in 1965 of \u003ci\u003eFor Marx and Reading Capital \u003c\/i\u003eestablished Louis Althusser as one of the most original and controversial figures in the Western Marxist tradition; a thinker whose renewal of Marxism was to enjoy great influence over the next decade. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCollected here are Althusser's most significant philosophical writings from 1965 to 1978; the majority previously untranslated. 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe collection opens with two lucid early articles--\"Theory, Theoretical Practice and Theoretical Formation\" and \"On Theoretical Work.\" The title piece--Althusser's celebrated lectures in the \"Philosophy Course for Scientists\"--is the fullest exploration of his new definition of philosophy as politics in the realm of theory; a conception which is further developed in \"Lenin and Philosophy.\" \"Is it Simple to be a Marxist in Philosophy?\" provides an invaluable account of Althusser's intellectual development. The volume concludes with two little-known late pieces--\"The Transformation of Philosophy,\" in which the paradoxical history of Marxist philosophy is investigated; and \"Marxism Today,\" a sober balance-sheet of the Marxist tradition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAttesting 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377628119263,"sku":"9781844677894","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ugUh5FAvfX9781844677894.webp?v=1789236230"},{"product_id":"machiavelli-and-us-paperback","title":"Machiavelli and Us - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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 on Machiavelli, originally delivered at the École Normale Supérieure in 1972, intermittently revised up to the mid-1980s, and carefully prepared for publication after his death in 1990. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough only appearing as an occasional reference in the Marxist philosopher's oeuvre, Machiavelli was an unseen constant presence. For together with Spinoza and Marx, Machiavelli was a veritable Althusserian passion. \u003ci\u003eMachiavelli and Us\u003c\/i\u003e reveals why, and will be welcomed for the light it sheds on the richly complex thought of its author.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377646174431,"sku":"9781844676750","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/x0kgNbLTy99781844676750.webp?v=1789236281"},{"product_id":"for-marx-paperback","title":"For Marx - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. \u003ci\u003eFor Marx\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377647550687,"sku":"9781844670529","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/5yckakIwbK9781844670529.webp?v=1789236288"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/louis-althusser.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}