READING CAPITAL

Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism fro m its foundations. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher, maintained that Marxs project could only be revived if its scie ntific and revolutionary novelty was thoroughly divested of all traces of humanism, idealism, Hegelianism and historicism. In order to complete this critical rereading, Althusser and his students at the École normale supérieure ran a seminar on Capital, re-examini ng its arg...[Read more]