Althusser: The Detour of Theory (Historical Materialism Book Series) by Gregory Elliott
Althusser: The Detour of Theory (Historical Materialism Book Series) by Gregory Elliott
Brill Academic Pub | October 30, 2006 | English | ISBN: 9004153373 | 436 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Brill Academic Pub | October 30, 2006 | English | ISBN: 9004153373 | 436 pages | PDF | 9 MB
First published in 1987, "Althusser: The Detour of Theory" was widely received as the fullest account of its subject to date. Drawing on a wide range of hitherto untranslated material, it examined the political and intellectual contexts of Althusser's 'return to Marx' in the mid-1960s; analysed the novel character of the Marxism developed in his major works; charted their author's subsequent evolution, from his self-criticism to the proclamation of a 'crisis of Marxism'; and concluded with a balance-sheet of Althusser's contribution to historical materialism.