Althusser and the end of Leninism?
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Althusser and the end of Leninism?
Pluto Press, 1995
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 226-236
Includes index
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Description
Louis Althusser was not only a key intellectual for the French Left in the 1960s and 70s, his influence and reputation extended beyond the boundaries of his own country and have left a lasting mark. In the current climate of collapse of Marxist ideas, Althusser has paradoxically become a cuase celebre once again. Not, however, because of the perceived value of his ideas, but because of his own and others' revelations of his psychological problems. This book offers a re-evaluation of the significance of key aspects of Louis Althusser's thought: his overt espousal of Leninism during the two decades up the the end of the 1970s. Althusser attempted to rehabilitate Lenin as an academically respectable philosopher, rather than as a politician. His neglect of Lenin's contribution to political theory is also assessed and an assessment of Althusser's shift away from Leninism at the end of the seventies concludes the study.
Table of Contents
- Althusser and the politics of French Communism
- Althusser, Bachelard and the development of ideas
- the question of theory
- knowledge and ideology
- the theory of revolution
- the end of Leninism?
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