Althusser and Us

As a philosopher, Marxist intellectual and educator, Louis Althusser is a thinker who has renewed political theory and philosophy of history from Machiavelli to Marx in an original style, and has always developed his theory by considering practical politics.

Althusser and We consists of interviews with twenty people who were among today's important thinkers and writers who were his students and shared the same political and cultural climate with him. These interviews, which can be read as attempts to update his legacy, sometimes emphasize Althusser's contributions and sometimes approach him in a critical manner.

This book, which allows us to understand Althusser's working style, his relationships with his environment and his personality, sheds light on the course of the concepts put forward by the thinker and allows us to look at the world of European thought and politics in the 1960s and 1970s with a different perspective.

“There was a tension tearing Althusser's thought apart from the inside: therefore, if we want to reconstruct it in all its intensity and radicality, it seems inevitable to apply to it the method of 'symptomatic reading' that he theorized in order to reveal this tension. Althusser attracts attention today and is 'up-to-date', but the reason for this is not Althusserianism, a homogeneous system of thought that he managed to establish and handed over to us with the keys and the user manual; "They are the contradictions that it contains within itself, sometimes imperceptibly, sometimes screaming."

- Pierre Macherey -

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition