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SPECTRE OF HEGEL
EARLY WRITINGS |
| By: |
Louis Althusser |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1781681511 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781781681510 |
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| Publisher: |
VERSO BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
20 December, 2013 |
| Series: |
Radical Thinkers |
| Pages: |
264 |
| Description: |
Widely recognized as an intellectual giant and leading Marxist philosopher of the 20th century, Louis Althusser has left a towering legacy. This collection of Althusser's writings from the period 1945-1953 gives unique insight into the formation of his personality. Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in Paris in 1990. |
| Synopsis: |
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 1945-1953 turns these interpretations of Althusser on their heads: we discover that there was a 'young Althusser' as well as the 'mature Althusser' we are already familiar with. In his fascinating Master's thesis. 'On Content in the Thought of G. W. F. Hegel' (1947), Althusser developed a position which he was later to attack ferociously: namely, that the revolutionary potential of the Hegelian dialectic could be defended against Hegel's own political conservatism. We see Althusser still wrestling with the spectres of Hegel and of Catholicism in another long text, his letter to Jean Lacroix, and, finally, we see his own 'epistemological break' in the piece 'On Marxism' from 1953. Other texts included are his critique of Alexander Kojeve (whose interpretation Francis Fukuyama has recently revived) and his attack on the French Church's teachings on women, sex and the family. Widely recognized as an intellectual giant of the late twentieth century, Althusser has left a towering legacy. This collection not only gives a unique insight into the formation of such a personality, but will also restore the 'unknown Althusser' to the centre of the history of Marxism and of philosophy since the Second World War. |
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UK |
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Verso Books |
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