Reading Capital
$18.76
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
17 June 2009
Summary
Unveiling Capital: A Symptomatic Reading
Establishing a rigorous program of “symptomatic reading” that cuts through the silences and lacunae of Capital to reveal its philosophical core, Louis Althusser interprets Marx’s structural analysis of production as a revolutionary break-the basis of a completely new science. Building on a series of Althussers’s conceptual innovations that includes “overdetermination” and “social formation,” Étienne Balibar explores the hist…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844673476 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844673472 |
| Author: | Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Ben Brewster |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 17 June 2009 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 29mm |
| Series: | Radical Thinkers Set 04 |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“One reads his passionate study with attention, even excitement.”-Eric Hobsbawn, Times Literary Supplement
“One reads [Althusser’s] passionate study with attention, even excitement.” Eric Hobsbawm
About The Author
Louis Althusser
Louis Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in France in 1990. He taught Philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party.
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