LOUIS
ALTHUSSER


FOR
MARX

 
© 1969 by Allen Lane, The Penguin Press

Translated by Ben Brewster
 
Originally published in France as Pour Marx
by François Maspero, S.A., Paris.
© 1965 by Librairie François Maspero

 

Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo,
djr@marx2mao.org (March 2002)
    For Marx consists of seven distinct essays. I have not, however, prepared them as separate files. Rather, your choices are limited to downloading each of the two parts (of equal size, 345k) into which I have grouped the texts or you may download the larger single file containing the entire contents (649k). The English translation of For Marx included a "Glossary" and this has been included in each of the two parts. Below is the complete table of contents.


 

These pages are dedicated
to the memory of Jacques Martin,
the friend
who, in the most terrible ordeal,
alone
discovered the road to
Marx's philosophy
- and guided me onto it.
                L.A.


 

[ - Part 1 - ]

 

Contents


To My English Readers    9

Acknowledgements    17

Introduction: Today    21

1

Feuerbach's 'Philosophical Manifestoes'    41

2

'On the Young Marx'    49

3

Contradiction and Overdetermination    87

(Glossary)


[ - Part 2 - ]
 

4
 

The 'Piccolo Teatro':
Bertolazzi and Brecht    129

5

The '1844 Manuscripts' of Karl Marx    153

6

On the Materialist Dialectic    161

7

Marxism and Humanism    219

Glossary    249

Index    259   [not available]



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