| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction / Fredric Jameson -- Philosophy as a revolutionary weapon -- Lenin and philosophy -- Preface to Capital volume one -- Lenin before Hegel -- Ideology and ideological state apparatus (notes towards an investigation) -- Freud and Lacan -- A letter on art in reply to Andre Daspre -- Cremonini, painter of the abstract |
| Summary |
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 enor |
| Notes |
Originally published: New York : Monthly Review Press, ©1971. With new introduction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924
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| SUBJECT |
Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 fast |
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Philosophy, Marxist.
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Ideology.
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ideology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
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Ideology
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Philosophy, Marxist
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Brewster, Ben, translator.
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Jameson, Fredric, writer of introduction.
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| ISBN |
9781583673737 |
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1583673733 |
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9781583673720 |
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1583673725 |
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