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Reading Capital

The Complete Edition

Author Louis Althusser
Introduction by Etienne Balibar
Contributions by Roger Establet, Jacques Ranciere, Pierre Macherey
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On sale Jul 12, 2016 | 576 Pages | 9781784781422
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A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time

Originally published in 1965, 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. In order to complete this critical rereading, Althusser and his students at the École normale supérieure ran a seminar on Capital, re-examining its arguments, strengths and weaknesses in detail, and it was out of those discussions that this book was born.

Previously only available in English in highly abridged form, this edition, appearing fifty years after its original publication in France, restores chapters by Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Rancière. It includes a major new introduction by Étienne Balibar.
Louis Althusser (1918–90) taught philosophy for many years at the École normale supérieur in Paris. He was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party.

Étienne Balibar is Anniversary Chair at Kingston University and Professor Emeritus at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense.

Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII.

Pierre Macherey is Emeritus Professor at the University of Lille III.

Roger Establet is Emeritus Professor at the University of Provence.
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A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time

Originally published in 1965, 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. In order to complete this critical rereading, Althusser and his students at the École normale supérieure ran a seminar on Capital, re-examining its arguments, strengths and weaknesses in detail, and it was out of those discussions that this book was born.

Previously only available in English in highly abridged form, this edition, appearing fifty years after its original publication in France, restores chapters by Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Rancière. It includes a major new introduction by Étienne Balibar.

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Louis Althusser (1918–90) taught philosophy for many years at the École normale supérieur in Paris. He was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party.

Étienne Balibar is Anniversary Chair at Kingston University and Professor Emeritus at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense.

Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII.

Pierre Macherey is Emeritus Professor at the University of Lille III.

Roger Establet is Emeritus Professor at the University of Provence.
Louis Althusser View titles by Louis Althusser

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