Establishing a rigorous program of ‘symptomatic reading’ that cuts through the silences and lacunae of
Capital to reveal its philosophical core, Louis Althusser interprets Marx’s structural analysis of production as a revolutionary
break-the basis of a completely new science. Building on a series of Althussers’s conceptual innovations that includes ‘overdetermination’ and ‘social formation, ‘ �tienne Balibar explores the historical and structural facets of production as Marx understood them, scrutinizing many of the most fundamental points in
Capital, as though for the first time.
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 �cole Normale Sup�rieure in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party. His books include For Marx; Reading Capital (with Etienne Balibar); Essays in Ideology; Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx; Machiavelli and Us; and The Spectre of Hegel.
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