Author: Louis Althusser

In How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to functio...

Althusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau's Discourse on the Origins of Inequality at the École normale supérieure in Paris in 1972. They are ...

What is perhaps Louis Althusser''s most famous text, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, published in 1970 and very influential ever sinc...

Rules are different outside the Society. Chasing down an uncertain future, Cassia makes her way to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky - taken by ...

Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundatio...

We do not publish our own drafts, that is, our own mistakes, but we do sometimes publish other people's, Louis Althusser once observed of Marx's ea...

A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first timeOriginally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French th...

Intended to contribute, in his own words, to a left-wing critique of Stalinism that would help put some substance back into the revolutionary proje...

Louis Althusser's renowned short text Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understand...

Louis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling...