Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

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by Louis Althusser

Monthly Review Press

Due/Published January 2001, 272 pages, paper

ISBN 1583670394

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Althusser's classic, it covers the range of his interests and contributions in philosophy, economics, psychology, aesthetics, and political science. In addition to "Lenin and Philosopy," it also contains Althusser's essay on Lenin's study of Hegel; a major essay on the state, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," "Freud and Lacan: A letter on Art in Reply to André Daspre," and "Cremonini, Painter of the Abstract." The book opens with a 1968 interview in which Althusser discusses his personal, political, and intellectual history.