For Marx
by Althusser, Louis
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, (1969)., 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First American Edition. Octavo, brown cloth covered boards with red decorated blindstamped bust of Marx on front board and gilt spine titles. 270pp. including index and glossary. Originally published in France as "Pour Marx" and translated from the French by Ben Brewster. A very tight, sound volume with bright gilt and fresh cloth. A handful of underlined passages. In a price-clipped dust jacket (with new publisher's price-sticker) which is tight, crisp and intact but which is lightly darkened at spine and fore edge (heavy smoker). Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Uncommon..
Synopsis
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 .
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 05140
- Title
- For Marx
- Author
- Althusser, Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- New York: Pantheon Books, (1969).
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- ALTHUSSER, REVOLUTION, REVOLUTIONARY, FRANCE, FRENCH, MARX, MARXISM, MARXIST, POLITICAL, POLITICS, THEORY, CRITICAL, ACADEMIC, POLITICIAN, SCIENCE, MOVEMENT, COMMUNIST, COMMUNISM, SOCIALISM, SOCIALIST, THINKER, TREATISE, POST MODERN, MASS, ECONOMICS, PROD
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- Philosophy;
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