Politics and history : Montesquieu, Rosseau, Hegel, Marx.

Door: Althusser, Louis.

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• ISBN: 9780902308961
• Uitgever: Translated from the French by Ben Brewster. London : NLB, 1977. 2nd edition. Paperback. 192 pp. Owner's stamp on title-page. Conditie: goed
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• Details: Conditie: goed. PHILOSOPHY
• Extra informatie: - This book presents a Marxist structuralist analysis of key political thinkers - Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx - exploring how each approached the relationship between politics and history. He presents Montesquieu as an early theorist of structural causality, revisits Rousseau's contradictions between individual will and collective sovereignty, analyzes Hegel’s dialectic, and reaffirms Marx’s scientific break from idealist philosophy. Althusser interprets Montesquieu as a precursor to structural analysis in political thought and critiques Rousseau’s attempt to reconcile individual freedom with collective sovereignty. He examines Hegel’s dialectical method as both groundbreaking and ideologically limited, before reaffirming Marx’s scientific rupture with philosophical idealism. The essays collectively argue for understanding history as structured by underlying material and ideological forces rather than by individual agency or historical necessity. Reflecting post-1968 theoretical debates in France, the work defends Marxist theory from humanist and historicist revisions and remains influential in political philosophy, ideological critique, and historiography.
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