Reading. Capital. First published: by Librairie François Maspero, Paris, ; Translated: by Ben Brewster; This translation first published New Left Books Foreword to the Italian Edition. Note to the English Edition. Part I: From Capital to Marx’s Philosophy. Part II: The Object of Capital. Reading Capital. Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar Part I. From Capital to Marx’s Philosophy. Louis Althusser. First published: by Librairie François Maspero, Paris, ; Translated: by Ben Brewster; This translation first published New Left Books The following papers were delivered in the course of a seminar on Capital held at. Read Book Reading Capital Louis Althusser Reading Capital Louis Althusser A milestone in the development of post-war Marxist thought. What is to be done? This was the question asked by Lenin in when he was having doubts about the revolutionary capabilities of the Russian working class. 77 years later, Louis Althusser asked the same question.
A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first timeOriginally published in , Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations. Louis Althusser, the. Some of the most important works of post-war French Marxism were published in Louis Althusser's For Marx was accompanied by his seminar group's collaborative volume Reading Capital, and Henri Lefebvre's Metaphilosophy appeared the same year. Both Reading Capital and Metaphilosophy now appear, in complete translations, from Verso. Recently I've been working through texts on structuralist Marxism, starting with "Reading Capital" by Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar followed by The Poverty of Theory (EP Thompson's superb polemic against Althusser) and the sections on Althusser in Western Marxism A Critical Reader. This post will capture some of the key points from this strand of Marxism, and I'll follow up.
Reading. Capital. First published: by Librairie François Maspero, Paris, ; Translated: by Ben Brewster; This translation first published New Left Books Foreword to the Italian Edition. Note to the English Edition. Part I: From Capital to Marx’s Philosophy. Part II: The Object of Capital. Originally published in , 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. Reading Reading Capital: surely, the linguistic reprise does not escape you. Our project, very much like the project of Louis Althusser and his students, is to return to a formative critical text in order to deploy it in our contemporary political struggles. That, I would argue, was Althusser’s project—as it is ours.
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