This book traces the development of Dialectical Logic within the history of modern western philosophy, culminating in Marx's materialist dialectics. It brings out the essential contours of Logic through a detailed exposition of the ontological and epistemological issues discussed by the classical French and German philosophers.
First published in 1987, Althusser: The Detour of Theory was widely received as the fullest account of its subject to date.
Drawing on a wide range of hitherto untranslated material,...
Lenin and Philosophy and other essays
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 phil...
Frantz Fanon: Colonialism and Alienation
Frantz Fanon – doctor, psychiatrist, writer, revolutionary – has had a profound influence upon the revolutionary movements of our time. His political theories developed in the course of the Alg...
Ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. In this now classic work, originally written for both newcomers to the topic and f...
This volume, originally published in French, offers a new interpretation of Marx's great work. By exploring the work as a step in a process of theoretical development, Jacques Bidet re-assesses Mar...
This book traces the development of Dialectical Logic within the history of modern western philosophy, culminating in Marx's materialist dialectics. It brings out the essential contours of Logic th...
Thinking is not a detached, objective reflection about the world and existence; it also seeks to intervene in the world and transfigure existence. For a mere description of reality as it exists, a...
The "crisis" of liberal democracies in today's world demands from us re-investigation of the notion of the "political". Since the dominant concept of the "political" that is associated with the lib...
The Warrior and the Charioteer
The Bhagavadgita is considered one of the core texts of Hindu philosophy and religion. Ever since the poem was composed, innumerable commentaries have been written which seek to explain the poem fr...
The Humanization of Transcendental Philosophy
