Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Pierre Macherey, Jacques Rancière, Roger Establet

Reading Capital (eBook, ePUB)

The Complete Edition
Übersetzer: Brewster, Ben; Fernbach, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher, maintained that Marx's project could only be revived if its scientific and revolutionary novelty was thoroughly divested of all traces of humanism, idealism, Hegelianism and historicism. In order to complete this critical rereading, Althusser and his students at the ¿cole normale sup¿rieure ran a seminar on Capital, re-examining its arguments, strengths and weaknesses in detail, and it was out of those discussions that this book was born.

Previously only available in English in highly abridged form, this edition, appearing fifty years after its original publication in France, restores chapters by Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Ranci¿re. It includes a major new introduction by ¿tienne Balibar.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784781439
• Artikelnr.: 50029126

Autorenporträt

Louis Althusser (1918-90) taught philosophy for many years at the ¿cole normale sup¿rieur in Paris. He was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party.

¿tienne Balibar is Anniversary Chair at Kingston University and Professor Emeritus at the Universit¿ Paris Ouest Nanterre La D¿fense.

Jacques Ranci¿re is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII.

Pierre Macherey is Emeritus Professor at the University of Lille III.

Roger Establet is Emeritus Professor at the University of Provence.

Rezensionen

One of the central texts of French structuralism (and of modern Marxism as well). Its critique of humanism and what Althusser called historicism remains relevant and ought to be renewed in our time. Fredric Jameson