Lenin and Philosophy

No figure among the western Marxist theoreticians has loomed larger in the postwar period than Louis Althusser. A rebel against the Catholic tradition in which he was raised, Althusser studied philosophy and later joined both the faculty of the �cole Normale Sup�rieure and the French Communist Party in 1948. Viewed as a structuralist Marxist, Althusser was as much admired for his independence of i...