Reading Capital

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Pub. Date: 2009-06-09
Publisher(s): VERSO
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Summary

The foundational text of 'structuralist Marxism' which transformed the face of modern philosophy and social theory. 'œOne reads [Althusser's] passionate study with attention, even excitement.' --Eric Hobsbawm

Author Biography

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.

Étienne Balibar is a French Marxist philosopher and the most celebrated student of Louis Althusser. He is also one of the leading exponents of French Marxist philosophy and the author of Spinoza and Politics, The Philosophy of Marx and co-author of Race, Nation and Class and Reading Capital.

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