{"product_id":"the-spectre-of-hegel-early-writings-9781781681510","title":"The Spectre Of Hegel: Early Writings","description":"Louis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling with the intellectual inheritance of Hegel and Catholicism. \u003ci\u003eThe Spectre of Hegel \u003c\/i\u003ecollects the writings of the young Althusser, before his final epistemological break with the philosopher's work in 1953. Including his famed essay 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses', \u003ci\u003eThe Spectre of Hegel \u003c\/i\u003egives a unique insight into Althusser's engagement with a philosophy he would later renounce.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouis Althusser\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eFor Marx\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eReading Capital\u003c\/i\u003e (with Etienne Balibar); \u003ci\u003eEssays in Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePolitics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMachiavelli and Us\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Spectre of Hegel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51890472648978,"sku":"9781781681510","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1d2b24a1-3c3e-4b3d-b181-fe2955e3fd0c.jpg?v=1768306103","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-spectre-of-hegel-early-writings-9781781681510","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}