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Reading Capital (Verso Radical Thinkers)
A landmark of French thought, Reading Capital is no less than an attempt to topple the edifice of Western Marxism and rebuild it from the original foundations. Establishing a rigorous programme 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 ...more
Paperback, 383 pages
Published
June 9th 2009
by Verso
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In this tremendous work, Althusser (and Etienne Balibar) argues that Marx's "Capital" marks the emergence of a new "science of history," a new mode of knowledge that sprang out of the author's encounters with his philosophical predecessors but which couldn't be recognized as such precisely because the answer that it provides is directed towards a question not available in his empiricist philosophical antecedents. Key to Althusser's recuperation of this new science in Marx is ...more
Only read the first section, but that was enough for me. I enjoy any French philosopher who mentions "poached baby elephant."
are dadsh!ine!khastam bedooni maam ye vaghti si khodemoo ademi boodim,azi ketaba mikhoondim.haaa!louis althosser:)
Althusser is an absolute nut. Sound and fury signifying nothing.
Honestly, after reading Capital volume one I thought this text would be a breeze, or at the very least, illuminate some of the darker, more opaque passages in Marx's Magnum Opus. Boy, was I wrong. In fact, this text is so much harder I had to put it down after only about 20-25 pages in. Will probably pick it up again (I own it after all), but sheesh - those Frenchies sure love to prognosticate in the realm of abstractions. Would take a lifetime to truly understand this text, and other scholars s...more
Science wins! (Sorry ideology).
Materialism wins! (Sorry idealism).
"Well grubbed, old mole." KM is the mole. Capitalism is the mud. Once you grab that grub, don't let it go!
Materialism wins! (Sorry idealism).
"Well grubbed, old mole." KM is the mole. Capitalism is the mud. Once you grab that grub, don't let it go!
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Louis Pierre Althusser (1918–1990) was one of the most influential Marxist philosophers of the 20th Century. As they seemed to offer a renewal of Marxist thought as well as to render Marxism philosophically respectable, the claims he advanced in the 1960s about Marxist philosophy were discussed and debated worldwide. Due to apparent reversals in his theoretical positions, to the ill-fated facts of...more
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