{"title":"Louis Althusser","description":"\u003cp\u003eLouis Althusser's works delve into complex intersections of \u003cem\u003ephilosophy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003epolitical theory\u003c\/em\u003e, offering rigorous analyses of Marxism and its contemporary interpretations. His books challenge conventional thought, exploring themes from history and imperialism to the philosophical underpinnings of politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect profound reflections on topics such as ideology, state power, and the role of philosophy in social change. Althusser's texts invite thoughtful engagement with both classic and modern political and philosophical questions, making them essential for anyone interested in critical theory.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"history-and-imperialism-by-louis-althusser-9781509537235","title":"History and Imperialism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWritings on History\u003c\/em\u003e brings together a selection of texts by Louis Althusser dating from 1963 to 1986, including essays, a lecture, notes to his collaborators, and the transcript of an informal 1963 discussion of literary history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe centrepiece of this collection is Althusser’s previously unpublished \u003cem\u003eBook on Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e, a theorisation of globalised capitalism that remained unfinished. All these writings are concerned with the place of history in Marxist theory and, in particular, on what Althusser considered to be the mortal danger of historicism haunting the revolutionary reading of the present. They testify to his continuing dialogue with the historiography of his day, several of whose representatives were engaged in discussion and debate with him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeeply interested in history but intent on avoiding the kind of interpretation that would transform it into a deterministic force, Althusser never ceased to reflect on the equilibrium between the historical and the concept in Marxist historiography, an equilibrium that he sought to reinvent for his time. The traces of that undertaking, which continues to generate debate throughout the world today, are brought together in this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000635801836,"sku":"9781509537235","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12394603482725.jpg?v=1763291987"},{"product_id":"how-to-be-a-marxist-in-philosophy-by-louis-althusser-9781474280549","title":"How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHow to Be a Marxist in Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to function fruitfully as a political thinker within the discipline and environs of philosophy. This is the first English translation of Althusser's provocative and often controversial guide to being a true Marxist philosopher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthusser argues that philosophy \u003cem\u003eneeds\u003c\/em\u003e Marxism. It cannot exist fully without it. Similarly, Marxism requires the rigour and structures of philosophy to give it form and focus. He calls upon all thinking people: 'Remember: a philosopher is a man who fights in theory, and when he understands the reasons for this fight, he joins the ranks of the struggle of workers and popular classes.' In short, this book comprises Althusser's elucidation of what praxis means and why it continues to matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a superb introduction from translator and Althusser archivist G.M. Goshgarian, \u003ci\u003eHow to Be a Marxist in Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that will re-inspire contemporary Marxist thought and reinvigorate our notions of what political activism can be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000639439084,"sku":"9781474280549","price":63.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24943013482712.jpg?v=1763292373"},{"product_id":"lessons-on-rousseau-by-louis-althusser-9781784785574","title":"Lessons on Rousseau","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau’s \u003cem\u003eDiscourse on the Origins of Inequality\u003c\/em\u003e at the École normale supérieure in Paris in 1972. They are fascinating for two reasons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst, they gave rise to a new generation of Rousseau scholars, attentive not just to Rousseau’s ideas, but also to those of his concepts that were buried beneath metaphors or fictional situations and characters. A new way of coming to terms with Rousseau’s theoretical rigour, beneath his apparent reveries and sentimental flights of fancy, was here put to work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSecond, we are now discovering that the 'late Althusser’s’ theses about aleatory materialism and the need to break with the strict determinism of theories of history in order to devise a new philosophy 'for Marx' were being worked out well before 1985 – in this reading of Rousseau dating from twelve years earlier, which introduces into Rousseau’s text the ideas of the void, the accident, the take, and the necessity of contingency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000669651180,"sku":"9781784785574","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12470573482823.jpg?v=1763295184"},{"product_id":"machiavelli-and-us-by-francois-matheron-9781844676750","title":"Machiavelli and Us","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"We do not publish our own drafts, that is, our own mistakes, but we do sometimes publish other people's,\" Louis Althusser once observed of Marx's early writings. Among his own posthumously released drafts, one, at least, is incontestably neither mistake nor out-take: the text of his lecture course on Machiavelli, originally delivered at the École Normale Supérieure in 1972, intermittently revised up to the mid-1980s, and carefully prepared for publication after his death in 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThough only appearing as an occasional reference in the Marxist philosopher's oeuvre, Machiavelli was an unseen constant presence. For together with Spinoza and Marx, Machiavelli was a veritable Althusserian passion. \u003ci\u003eMachiavelli and Us\u003c\/i\u003e reveals why, and will be welcomed for the light it sheds on the richly complex thought of its author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000677875948,"sku":"9781844676750","price":57.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/21580743482844.jpg?v=1763295760"},{"product_id":"philosophy-for-non-philosophers-by-louis-althusser-9781474299275","title":"Philosophy for Non-Philosophers","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1980, at the end of the most intensely political period of his work and life, Louis Althusser penned \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy for Non-philosophers\u003c\/i\u003e. Available here for the first time in English, \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy for Non-philosophers\u003c\/i\u003e constitutes a rigorous and engaged attempt to address a wide reading public unfamiliar with Althusser’s project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs such, the work is a concentration of the most fundamental theses of Althusser’s own ideas, and presents a synthesis of his sprawling and disparate philosophical and political writings. Nowhere else does Althusser push the distinction between philosophy and other disciplines as far, or develop in such detail the concept of ‘practice’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRather than a work of ‘popular philosophy’, \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy for Non-philosophers\u003c\/i\u003e is a continuation and conglomeration of Althusser’s thought; a thought whose radicality is still perceptible in those that have followed since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilosophy for Non-philosophers\u003c\/i\u003e thus provides a vivid encapsulation of Althusser’s seminal influence on the leading thinkers of today, including Ranciere, Badiou, Balibar, and Žižek.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000705171692,"sku":"9781474299275","price":63.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/25130273482712.jpg?v=1763298950"},{"product_id":"what-is-to-be-done-by-louis-althusser-9781509538614","title":"What is to be Done?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat is to be Done?\u003c\/em\u003e This was the question asked by Lenin in 1901 when he was having doubts about the revolutionary capabilities of the Russian working class. 77 years later, Louis Althusser asked the same question. Faced with the tidal wave of May '68 and the recurrent hostility of the Communist Party towards the protests, he wanted to offer readers a succinct guide for the revolution to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLively, brilliant and engaged, this short text is wholly oriented towards one objective: to organise the working class struggle. Althusser provides a sharp critique of Antonio Gramsci's writings and of Eurocommunism, which seduced various Marxists at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut this book is above all the opportunity for Althusser to state what he had not succeeded in articulating elsewhere: what concrete conditions would need to be satisfied before the revolution could take place. 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