Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx - Paperback

by Louis Althusser (Author), Ben Brewster (Translator)

The groundbreaking Marxist philosopher provides unique appraisals of major political theorists.

Author Biography

Louis Althusser 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 For Marx; Reading Capital (with Etienne Balibar); Essays in Ideology; Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx; Machiavelli and Us; and The Spectre of Hegel.