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Althusser: The Detour of Theory (Historical Materialism Book Series)

By Gregory Elliott

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2006
ISBN
9789004153370, 9789047410751, 9004153373
ISSN
1570-1522
LCC
B2430.A474E55 2006
Open Library ID
OL22767385M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1556607 bytes)
Series
Historical Materialism 2
Pages
436\436
Topic
History
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

First published in 1987, Althusser, The Detour of Theory was widely received as the fullest account of its subject to date. Drawing on a wide range of hitherto untranslated material, it examined the political and intellectual contexts of Althusser's `return to Marx' in the mid-1960s; analysed the novel character of the Marxism developed in his major works; charted their author's subsequent evolution, from his self-criticism to the proclamation of a `crisis of Marxism'; and concluded with a balance-sheet of Althusser's contribution to historical materialism.For this second edition, Gregory Elliott has added a substantial postscript in which he surveys the posthumous edition of the French philosopher's work published in the 1990s, from the early writings of the 1940s through to the late texts of the 1980s, relating the unknown Althusser revealed by them to the familiar figure of For Marx and Reading Capital, together with a comprehensive bibliography of Althusser's oeuvre.

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