Louis Althusser: 12 books

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 1980, at the end of the most intensely political period of his work and life, Louis Althusser penned Philosophy for Non-philosophers. Available here for the first time in English, Philosophy for Non-philosophers constitutes a rigorous and engaged attempt to address a wide reading public unfamiliar...

What can psychoanalysis, a psychological approach developed more than a century ago, offer us in an age of rapidly evolving, hard-to-categorize ideas of sexuality and the self? Should we abandon Freud's theories completely or adapt them to new findings and the new relationships taking shape in modern...

Louis Althusser’s renowned short text ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’ radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of cultural, political and literary theory. The text has influenced thinkers such as Judith Butler,...

Louis 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. The Spectre of Hegel collects the writings of the young Althusser, before his final epistemological...

Althusser abre su corazón (y su cabeza) en esta autoentrevista, inédita durante cuarenta años, donde aborda las condiciones de posibilidad de una política realmente de izquierdas. Tras el XXII Congreso del Partido Comunista Francés, celebrado en febrero de 1976, Louis Althusser, intelectual de...

A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher, maintained that...

In How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to function fruitfully as a political thinker within the discipline and environs of philosophy. This is the first English translation to Althusser's provocative...

Althusser dissects the leading Enlightenment philosopher Althusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau's Discourse on the Origins of Inequality at the École normale supérieure in Paris in 1972. They are fascinating for two reasons. First, they gave rise to a new generation of Rousseau scholars,...

"A todos aquellos que dudan hoy de la filosofía, a quienes dudan de que el marxismo sea capaz de tomar parte en la filosofía de una manera no arbitraria ni subjetiva, sino justa y eficaz, les digo: ¡Ved qué es lo que sucede a vuestro alrededor! ¡Ved cómo van de rápido las cosas! ¡Ved...

For a long time, the term “ideology” was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years have seen a revival of interest in the questions that ideology poses to social and cultural theory...

La reproducción de las relaciones de producción es el manuscrito de donde Althusser extrajo su famoso texto, publicado en La Pensée en 1970, Ideología y aparatos ideológicos del Estado, que en esta obra es analizado todo su contexto. En él, el autor presenta una concepción ordenada del materialismo...