Louis Althusser, For Marx

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1965/index.htm

— For Marx —

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First published: in 1965 as Pour Marx by François Maspero, S.A., Paris. In English in 1969 by Allen Lane, The Penguin Press;
Translated: by Ben Brewster;
Transcribed: by Andy Blunden.

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Contents

To My English Readers
Introduction: Today
1. Feuerbach’s ‘Philosophical Manifestoes’
2. ‘On the Young Marx’
3. Contradiction and Overdetermination
4. The ‘Piccolo Teatro’: Bertolazzi and Brecht
5. The ‘1844 Manuscripts’ of Karl Marx
6. On the Materialist Dialectic
7. Marxism and Humanism