num_pages: 253
description: This volume covers the range of Althusser's interests and contributions in philosophy, economics, psychology, aesthetics, and political science.Marx, in Althusser's view, was subject in his earlier writings to the ruling ideology of his day. Thus for Althusser, the interpretation of Marx involves a repudiation of all efforts to draw from Marx's early writings a view of Marx as a "humanist" and "historicist."Lenin and Philosophy also contains Althusser's essay on Lenin's study of Hegel; a major essay on the state, 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses', 'Freud and Lacan: A letter on Art in Reply to Andre Daspre', and 'Cremonini, Painter of the Abstract'. The book opens with a 1968 interview in which Althusser discusses his personal, political, and intellectual history.
language: English
title: Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
titlecomplete: Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (Modern Reader, Pb-213)
genres: Nonfiction, Psychoanalysis, Essays, Theory, Economics, Politics, Lenin, France, Philosophy, Sociology
ratings_count: 1617
publisher: Monthly Review Press