Lenin and philosophy, and other essays.
Subtitle: Translated from the French by Ben Brewster.
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, -- 1870-1924.; Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883.
Description: 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 1948. Viewed as a "structuralist Marxist," Althusser was as much admired for his independence of intellect as he was for his rigorous defense of Marx. The latter was best illustrated in For Marx (1965), and Reading Capital (1968). These works, along with Lenin and Philosophy (1971) had an enormous influence on the New Left of the 1960s and continues to influence modern Marxist scholarship.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.