On Ideology - Radical Thinkers: Book 3

Zusatztext “One reads him with excitement. There is no mystery about his capacity to inspire the intelligent young.”—Eric Hobsbawm “Althusser traversed so many lives—so many personal! historical! philosophical and political adventures; marked! inflected! influenced so many discourses! actions and existences by the radiant and provocative force of his thought—that the most diverse and contradictory accounts could never exhaust their source.”—Jacques Derrida Informationen zum Autor Louis Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in France in 1990. He taught philosophy for many years at the École Normale Supérieure 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 . Klappentext A classic philosophical study on how political and cultural ideas come to dominate. Zusammenfassung A classic philosophical study on how political and cultural ideas come to dominate.

Product details

• Authors: Louis Althusser
• Assisted by: Ben Brewster (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.12.2007
• EAN: 9781844672028
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-202-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Radical Thinkers; Verso radical thinkers; Radical Thinkers Set 03
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works