For Marx

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by Louis Althusser,

Translated by Ben Brewster

Verso (Out of Stock at the Publisher)

Due/Published October 1996, 272 pages, paper

ISBN 1859841465

This book is currently out of stock at the publisher, Verso, which will come as no surprise to many of you. At the moment, they do not know when copies will again be available.

For Marx, first published in France in 1965, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of 'structuralist Marxism' which was presided over by Althusser. This book contains the classic statements of Althusser's analysis of the young Marx and the importance of Feuerbach during this formative period, of his thesis of the 'epistemological break' between the early and the late Marx, and of his conception of dialectics, contradiction, and 'overdetermination'. Also included is a study of the materialist theatre of Bertolazzi and Brecht and the critique of humanist readings of Marxism.