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A milestone in the development of post-war Marxist thought

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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

Louis 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*