Translated by Ben Brewster

The groundbreaking Marxist philosopher provides unique appraisals of major writers.

“One reads him with excitement. There is no mystery about his capacity to inspire the intelligent young.” — Eric Hobsbawm

“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

Louis Althusser taught political philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party. Among his other works are Reading Capital, Machiavelli and Us, and For Marx, all available from Verso.

192 pages

Paper
ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 572 2
ISBN-10: 1 84467 572 6
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