Description: Originally published as: ãEtre marxiste en philosophie, Presses universitaires de France, 2015.
Brief description: Louis Althusser was a prominent French philosopher of the late twentieth century. His works include seminal writings on Marx, and the relation between post-war Marxist thought and other emerging discourses across the humanities (namely, structuralism). His works include, For Marx and Reading Capital.
Review Quotes:
"What has attracted the attention of scholars is the radically new direction Althusser's thought took, a direction that is only now slowly coming to light ... That Goshgarian put this project together is fortunate: he is a talented translator and an impeccable scholar, and thus his introduction is of enormous value. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." --CHOICE
"Engaging and instructive ... [captures] Althusser's political zeal into a powerful socio-political critique of the relations of the production of knowledge." --Marx and Philosophy Review of Books "Louis Althusser traversed so many lives... so many personal, historical, philosophical and political adventures; marked, inflected, influenced so many discourses, actions and existences by the radiant and provocative force of his thought... that the most diverse and contradictory accounts could never exhaust their source." --Jacques Derrida "One reads him with excitement. There is no mystery about his capacity to inspire the intelligent young." --Eric Hobsbawm