The humanist controversy and other writings, (1966-67) / Louis Althusser ; edited by François Matheron ; translated and with an introduction by G.M. Goshgarian.
"There can be little doubt that Louis Althusser was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his influence subsists in many of the concepts currently deployed in disciplines such as cultural studies, social theory and literary criticism. Yet Althusser was also a l...
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| Language: | English French |
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2003.
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| Summary: | "There can be little doubt that Louis Althusser was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his influence subsists in many of the concepts currently deployed in disciplines such as cultural studies, social theory and literary criticism. Yet Althusser was also a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party and a foremost participant in the debates in the human sciences that are marked by the names of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Lacan and Georges Canguilhem. His writings were major interventions in a specific political and theoretical conjuncture and it is this aspect of his work that this new collection of previously untranslated texts seeks to reflect."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | lxii, 318 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 185984507X 9781859845073 1859844081 9781859844083 |