For Marx

For Marx
Cover of the first edition
AuthorLouis Althusser
Original titlePour Marx
TranslatorBen Brewster
LanguageFrench
SubjectKarl Marx
PublisherFrançois Maspero, Allen Lane
Publication date
1965
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1969
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages258 (first edition)
ISBN978-1844670529

For Marx (French: Pour Marx) is a 1965 book by the philosopher Louis Althusser,[1] a leading theoretician of the French Communist Party (PCF), in which the author reinterprets the work of the philosopher Karl Marx, proposing an epistemological break between the young, Hegelian Marx, and the old Marx, the author of Das Kapital (1867–1883). The book, first published in France by François Maspero, established Althusser's reputation. The texts presented in For Marx are theoretical interventions in a definite conjuncture, particularly aiming at the definition of the lines to be pursued by the PCF after Stalin's years in the Soviet Union. Althusser's position is of theoretical antihumanism, and is against the teleology of history. Althusser defends that history is a process without subject and with an open end, but that has determinations that can be theorized by the science of history as constructed by Marx in his mature work, Das Kapital. Society is then conceptualized as a complex whole articulated in dominance by the economy where several social practices co-exist with a relative autonomy, introducing the concept overdetermination to characterize the levels of effectivity.

Background, contents and publication history

Except for its introduction, the chapters of For Marx first appeared as articles that were published in journals of the French Communist Party between 1960 and 1964.[2] For Marx was first published in 1965 by François Maspero. An Italian translation was published in 1967,[3] and an English translation, by Ben Brewster, in 1969. The book has been published in English by Verso Books[4] with its most recent edition dating 2005. The book is composed of the following essays:[5]

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

See also

References

  1. ^ Lewis, William (2018), "Louis Althusser", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2018 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2021-06-30
  2. ^ Althusser 2005, p. 9.
  3. ^ Timpanaro 1980, p. 68.
  4. ^ Althusser 2005, p. 4.
  5. ^ "For Marx. Louis Althusser 1962". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 2021-06-30.

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