Title: Reading Althusser :
Authors: Smith, Steven B.,
Date: 1984
Publisher: Cornell University Press,
Physical description: 230 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: B
Contents: 1. Introduction: The problem of Althusser -- 2. The humanist context -- Marxist humanism -- The "reification" controversy -- Kojeve and the end of history -- Sartre's "recovery of man" -- 3. The Althusserian project -- The problem of reading -- "The indispensable theoretical minimum" -- A system of epistemological Marxism -- Practice -- The problem of knowledge -- Ideology -- Marxism and the problem of history -- The fundamentalist thesis -- The internal relatedness thesis -- The overdetermination thesis -- 6. The structural science of history -- Marxism and structure -- Theoretical anti-humanism -- Nihilism: The moral intention of structuralism.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Althusser, Louis, 1918-1990.; Philosophy, Marxist.