Machiavelli and Us

"Althusser, poised between modernism and postmodernism, meets Machiavelli, poised between the Middle Ages and modernity."--Antonio Negri.

Author: Louis Althusser
Publisher: Verso
Published: 01/10/2011
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 7.79h x 5.12w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9781844676750
ISBN10: 1844676757
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Political
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Renaissance
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

About the Author
Louis Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in France in 1990. He taught philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party. His books include For Marx; Reading Capital (with Etienne Balibar); Essays in Ideology; Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx; Machiavelli and Us; and The Spectre of Hegel.

Gregory Elliott is a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and author of Althusser: The Detour of Theory and Labourism and the English Genius: The Strange Decay of Labour England?.