Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays is a collection of essays, written by the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, published in 1971. A similar edition in French is Lénine et la philosophie suivi de Marx et Lénine devant Hegel (Paris, 1972).

Both editions consist of Althusser’s lecture at the Société française de philosophie ‘Lenin and Philosophy’ (French: Lénine et la Philosophie) as well as of Althusser’s essay ‘Lenin before Hegel’ (French: Lénine devant Hegel) (written in 1968; first published [in French]: 1970).

A third essay within the French edition is Sur la rapport de Marx à Hegel (About the relationship of Marx to Hegel) (written in 1969; first published [in German]: 1970). This essay is not part of the English edition.

Rather the English edition additionally consists of a foreword, written by Althusser himself, and six other works of Althusser, which are not part of the French edition. Among these six works is Althusser’s famous essay ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’.

Most recent English editions

Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. [Newly] introduced by Fredric Jameson. Translated from the French by Ben Brewster (Dewey classification: 335.43)

• Monthly Review Press: New York, 2001 (ISBN 1-583-67039-4 [pbk.]; 1-583-67038-6 [cloth]); XVII + 173 pages; Table of Content)
• Aakar Books: Delhi, 2006 (ISBN 81-87879-85-8; XVII + 173 pages; OCLC: 838361487)

External links

• Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
• Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
• Wikidata items regarding the French editions: 1968 (journal article), 1969 (book), 1972 (article within enlarged book)

References

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2. Interpellation (philosophy)
3. Louis Althusser
4. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
5. Structural Marxism
6. Symbolic power
7. Marxist schools of thought
8. List of communist ideologies
9. The State and Revolution
10. Leninism
11. Vladimir Lenin
12. Ideology
13. Dialectical materialism
14. Character mask
15. Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism
16. Marxism–Leninism
17. Value-form
18. Dialectics of Nature
19. Sociology of literature
20. Political economy in anthropology