Felsefede Marksist Olmak

Philosophy is by no means innocent. The world that appears on the horizon of all these bright and subtle thoughts is his real world, the world of people and their fights: the world of class struggle.

Being a Marxist in Philosophy consists of 26 short chapters that Althusser wrote in 1975 and an additional piece written in response to a polemical text by Jean-François Revel. As the title reflects, the relationship between philosophy and Marxism is at the center of the debate. In the intermediate stops, the subheadings that Althusser frequently covers in his other texts are; There are crucial themes such as what philosophy is within the historical development line, the relationship between knowledge and power, the necessity of defending materialist philosophy against the centuries-old monopoly of idealist philosophy, the definition of knowledge production as an area of political struggle, and the importance of the philosopher in terms of class war.

In Becoming a Marxist in Philosophy, as in Introduction to Philosophy for Non-Philosophers, Althusser, with his usual interesting narrative, striking examples, and sometimes provocative and fiercely controversial style, tries to "turn the philosophy that seems upside down on its feet" from where he stands...