Althusser: The Detour of Theory by Elliott
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ISBN: 0860919005
Verso Books | October 1987
Paperback | 368 pages
Althusser: The Detour of Theory offers a comprehensive and critical examination of the French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser’s contribution to Marxist theory. Drawing on a wide range of untranslated material, Gregory Elliott surveys the political and intellectual context of Althusser’s influential works such as For Marx and Reading Capital, analysing the nature of his reconstruction of Marx’s doctrine and charting his intellectual evolution. Engaged yet judicious in tone, this groundbreaking study explores Althusser’s impact on historical materialism and assesses both the strengths and limitations of his theoretical interventions.