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Title: For Marx (Verso Classics, 1) by Louis Althusser, Ben Brewster ISBN: 1-85984-146-5 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: HIgh Marks, For Marx
Comment: It's been about 25 years since I last read (and reread) this work. "For Marx" and its contextual paradigm influenced me profoundly and contributed vital strands that have formed the course of my life. I think the key theme in Althusser's work and the trend of Marxism of which it is a part is to assert that a high order of thought is needed to be of real benefit to the underdog. I feel Althussers effort (as is Marxism) is a noble if preliminary effort in what can only be termed an epochal effort to consciously rise from the mire of human life dominated by topdogs. What was useful to Marxism of that time was to really take seriously the importance of Psychoanalysis and the pervasive presence of the Uncounscious. Another helpful idea is that of the multi-valenced quality of "social formation" in Contradiction and Overdetermination. Although my philosophical horizons are not defined by Marxism these days, much of Marxism, especially the currents populated by the likes of Althusser, Poulantzas, Gramsci etc. has an honored place in my intellectual tool kit. I feel that the wish to consciously transform our life in a benefical way may be assisted by the likes of Althusser et al, though in and of itself this is not enough.
Rating: 5
Summary: An underrated classic of Marxism.
Comment: This collection of essays includes the seminal moments of many concepts still alive in Marxism and academia at large. The essays on "Contradiction and Overdetermination", "On the Young Marx", "Marxism and Humanism", and on the 1844 Manuscripts deserve to be revisited by a wider audience today in light of the growing interest in Marxism informed by post-structuralist thought. Much of Derrida's work owes an unacknowledged debt to the interpretations presented here (e.g. Althusser's concept of overdetermination, and his principled anti-humanism). Highly recommended to those interested in Marxist philosophy.
Rating: 5
Summary: ISAs and Beyond
Comment: Any serious reader of Louis the Horrible is well-versed in the Althusserian arsenal of stock concepts and phrases: ISAs, interpellation, structuralist Marxism, et al. Perhaps a return to Pour Marx is in order amid the all-too-easy refutations of Althusser's legacy (c.f. Ferry and Renault) and the negligent historicizing of the veritably revolutionary/'evental' thinking that was mobilized in pieces like "Contradiction and Overdetermination." There's nothing to be ashamed of: take a look at this seminal work!
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Title: The Lacanian Subject by Bruce Fink ISBN: 0691015899 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 25 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays by Louis Althusser, Frederic Jameson, Ben Brewster ISBN: 1583670394 Publisher: Monthly Review Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (The Seminar of Jacques Lacan , Book 11) by Jacques Lacan ISBN: 0393317757 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Reading Capital (The Verso Classics Series) by Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Ben Brewster ISBN: 1859841643 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan (Paper), Bk 7) by Jacques Lacan, Dennis Porter ISBN: 0393316130 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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