| Althusser: The Detour of Theory Contributor(s): Elliott, Gregory (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004153373 ISBN-13: 9789004153370 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $149.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2006 Annotation: An expanded and updated version of the fullest account in English of the philosophico-political career of Louis Althusser and the fate of his controversial reconstruction of Marxism, containing a substantial new postscript and a comprehensive bibliography. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science |
| Dewey: 335.411 |
| Series: Historical Materialism Books (Haymarket Books) |
| Physical Information: 1.26" H x 6.24" W x 9.92" (2.06 lbs) 410 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |