Title

Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism

Authors

William S. Lewis, Skidmore College

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

2005

Recommended Citation

Lewis, W. S. (2005). Louis Althusser and the traditions of French Marxism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Abstract

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Why Marxism? Why French Marxism?
Chapter2 The PCF and French Intellectual Marxism: Paternity and Patterns
Chapter 3 The PCF 1920-1945, Theoretical and Pedagogical Positions on Marx
Chapter 4 French Intellectual Marxism, 1920-1939
Chapter 5 The Approaching Crisis: French Marxist Thought, 1940-1956
Chapter 6 The Purification of Theory
Chapter 7 Theory for Practice

Comments

Publisher Synopsis

This is a challenging and timely book which not only argues for the continuing fecundity of the thought of Althusser, but places it in a French Marxist tradition that has often been too hastily dismissed. Lewis's work is critical and concrete history of philosophy worthy of the object of study. -- Gavin Bowd, Lecturer in French, University of St. Andrews, Scotland