By Louis Althusser
Louis Althusser’s well known brief textual content ‘Ideology and Ideological nation Apparatuses’ substantially remodeled the concept of the topic, the knowledge of the state and even the very frameworks of cultural, political and literary concept. The textual content has encouraged thinkers such as Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj iek.
The piece is, in reality, an extract from a miles longer book, On the copy of Capitalism, before unavailable in English. Its e-book makes attainable a reappraisal of seminal Althusserian texts already on hand in English, their position in Althusser’s oeuvre and the relevance of his principles for modern thought. On the Reproduction of Capitalism develops Althusser’s belief of historical materialism, outlining the stipulations of reproduction in capitalist society and the innovative fight for its overthrow.
Written within the afterglow of may possibly 1968, the textual content addresses a query that keeps to hang-out us at the present time: in a society that publicizes its attachment to the beliefs of liberty and equality, why can we witness the ever-renewed reproduction of kinfolk of domination? either a conceptually innovative textual content and a key theoretical software for activists, On the copy of Capitalism is an important addition to the corpus of the twentieth-century Left.
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C, that are brought to bear on empirical facts. Hence the 'idea' of a biological 'science' that Aristotle's Philosophy takes as its authorization. On the Reproduction of Capitalism 16 We shall leave it to our readers to 'breathe life into' the elements of this schematic table. We shall restrict ourselves to putting them on the right track with a few simple remarks that are themselves extremely sche matic . We shall take just one example, Descartes. The table should be read as follows: Descartes' Philosophy, which marks a crucial moment in the history of Philosophy, since it inaugurates what we may call ' Modern Philosophy', came into existence with the conjunction of important modifications in class relations and the state on the one hand and the history of the sciences on the other.
XXXll Editorial No te of which there exist very substantial drafts by, notably, Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey, that are available at the IMEC. The group eventu ally disintegrated and the projected book was never finished. However, Christian Baudelot and Roger Establet's L'Ecole capitaliste en France, published in 1 97 1 , materialized in the context of this collective undertak ing. Althusser attentively followed the writing of the planned book and contemplated contributing a preface to it.
The fact is that we cannot say what Marxist-Leninist philosophy is without making the long detour through Volume 1 (Reproduction of the Relations of Production) and Volume 2 (The Class Struggle) . But why foreground the question of Marxist-Leninist philosophy this way, as well as the logically prior question of philosophy tout court (Volume 1 , Chapter 1 ) ? ] 2 [EN: Footnote crossed out in the manuscript: 'I am deliberately using, for the time being, the term " Marxist-Leninist philosophy". '] To �Vly Readers 3 I have not chosen to proceed in this fashion because I am, academically speaking, a philosopher - that is, because I am a specialist eager to talk about a subj ect I know a little about or because I want to 'praise my wares' .