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Translator Grahame Lock Pages 224 (English edition) | 3.7/5 Goodreads Country France Originally published 1974 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original title Eléments d'autocritique Louis Althusser books Reading Capital, Philosophy and the Spontane, For Marx, Philosophy of the Encounte, The spectre of Hegel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Essays in Self-criticism (French: Eléments d'autocritique) is one of the chief works of Louis Althusser, first published in 1974. An English translation by Grahame Lock was published in 1976.
Summary
Althusser re-evaluates his past works, especially For Marx (1965) and Reading Capital (1965), criticizing them for largely ignoring the class struggle. He accordingly redefined philosophy, from being a "theory of theoretical practice" to being "the class struggle in theory."
References
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