Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87 - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Louis Althusser, Oliver Corpet (Editor), Francois Matheron (Editor)Publish date:2006-06-17Pages:350
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781844675531ISBN-10:184467553XUPC:9781844675531Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Political, History & Surveys, Individual PhilosophersBook Topic:ModernSize:8.22 x 5.62 x 1.08 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCAY2TQ0WA
Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87
In the late 1970s and 1980s, Louis Althusser endured a period of intense mental instability during which he murdered his wife and was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Spanning this deeply troubling period, this fourth and final volume of political and philosophical writings reveals Althusser wrestling in a creative and unorthodox fashion with a whole series of theoretical problems to produce...
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781844675531ISBN-10:184467553XUPC:9781844675531Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Political, History & Surveys, Individual PhilosophersBook Topic:ModernSize:8.22 x 5.62 x 1.08 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCAY2TQ0WA
Louis Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in France in 1990. He taught philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party. His books include For Marx; Reading Capital (with Etienne Balibar); Essays in Ideology; Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx; Machiavelli and Us; and The Spectre of Hegel.
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Louis Althusser, Oliver Corpet (Editor), Francois Matheron (Editor)
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