Philosophy for Non-Philosophers by Althusser, Louis

Philosophy for Non-Philosophers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474299275)

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Philosophy for Non-Philosophers by Althusser, Louis

Philosophy for Non-Philosophers

$36.95
Philosophy for Non-Philosophers by Althusser, Louis

Philosophy for Non-Philosophers

$36.95
Format: Paperback
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In 1980, at the end of the most intensely political period of his work and life, Louis Althusser penned Philosophy for Non-philosophers. Available here for the first time in English, Philosophy for Non-philosophers constitutes a rigorous and engaged attempt to address a wide reading public unfamiliar with Althusser's project. As such, the work is a concentration of the most fundamental theses of Althusser's own ideas, and presents a synthesis of his sprawling and disparate philosophical and political writings. Nowhere else does Althusser push the distinction between philosophy and other disciplines as far, or develop in such detail the concept of 'practice'.

Rather than a work of 'popular philosophy', Philosophy for Non-philosophers is a continuation and conglomeration of Althusser's thought; a thought whose radicality is still perceptible in those that have followed since. Philosophy for Non-philosophers thus provides a vivid encapsulation of Althusser's seminal influence on the leading thinkers of today, including Ranciere, Badiou, Balibar, and Zizek.

Author: Louis Althusser
ISBN-10: 147429927X
ISBN-13: 9781474299275
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2017
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.70d

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Louis Althusser was a prominent French philosopher of the late twentieth century. His works include seminal writings on Marx, and the relation between post-war Marxist thought and other emerging discourses across the humanities (namely, structuralism). His works include, For Marx and Reading Capital.

G. M. Goshgarian translates fiction and philosophy from French, German and Armenian into English. He is the editor and translator of several volumes of Althusser's work, including How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2017).

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