Louis Althusser, Author, Richard Veasey, Translator New Press $25 (365p) ISBN 978-1-56584-087-4
French Marxist philosopher Althusser (1918-1990) was a manic-depressive with a long history of mental instability and constant medication. In 1980 he strangled his wife Helene; the murder was officially ascribed to temporary insanity, and after two...
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Louis Althusser, trans. from the French by G.M. Goshgarian. Verso (Random, dist.), $29.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-78168-164-0
Published in France in 1995, this translation of an unfinished manuscript by French intellectual and card-carrying communist Louis Althusser is a cascade of incomplete moments: written shortly after the student and worker uprising of May 1968 and...
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Louis Althusser, Author, Olivier Corpet, Author, Yann Moulier Boutang, Author New Press $14.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-56584-278-6
French philosopher Althusser's memoirs, written during his stay in a mental hospital after murdering his wife, offer to explain the roots of his madness. (May)
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