{"product_id":"the-spectre-of-hegel-isbn-9781781681510","title":"The Spectre Of Hegel","description":"Louis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling with the intellectual inheritance of Hegel and Catholicism. \u003ci\u003eThe Spectre of Hegel \u003c\/i\u003ecollects the writings of the young Althusser, before his final epistemological break with the philosopher’s work in 1953. Including his famed essay ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’, \u003ci\u003eThe Spectre of Hegel \u003c\/i\u003egives a unique insight into Althusser’s engagement with a philosophy he would later renounce.“The most prominent and innovative Marxist thinker of the postwar period in France.” —John Sturrock, \u003ci\u003eThe Word from Paris: Essays on Modern French Thinkers and Writers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e“Together with the work of Raymond Williams, Althusser’s writings are the most decisive theoretical influence in the development of British cultural materialism. Together with the work of Foucault, they are the most decisive theoretical influence in American New Historicism.” \u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eRichard Elridge,\u003ci\u003e The Persistence of Romanticism: Essays in Philosophy and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[\u003ci\u003eThe Spectre of \u003c\/i\u003eHegel] proves novel and interesting, filling a gap in our understanding of Althusser's development and allowing us to see some of the lines of thinking which led him to structuralism and thereby to notoriety.” —\u003ci\u003eCapital and Class\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouis Althusser\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eFor Marx\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eReading Capital\u003c\/i\u003e (with Etienne Balibar); \u003ci\u003eEssays in Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePolitics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMachiavelli and Us\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Spectre of Hegel\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304943997157,"sku":"NP9781781681510","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781781681510.jpg?v=1767741614","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-spectre-of-hegel-isbn-9781781681510","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}