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On the Reproduction of Capitalism
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
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Louis Althusser's renowned short text "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of cultural, political and literary theory. The text has influenced thinkers such as Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek.
The piece is, in fact, an extract from a much longer book, On the Reproduction of Capitalism, until now unavailable in English. Its publication makes possible a reappraisal of seminal Althusserian texts already available in English, their place in Althusser's oeuvre and the relevance of his ideas for contemporary theory. On the Reproduction of Capitalism develops Althusser's conception of historical materialism, outlining the conditions of reproduction in capitalist society and the revolutionary struggle for its overthrow.
Written in the afterglow of May 1968, the text addresses a question that continues to haunt us today: in a society that proclaims its attachment to the ideals of liberty and equality, why do we witness the ever-renewed reproduction of relations of domination? Both a conceptually innovative text and a key theoretical tool for activists, On the Reproduction of Capitalism is an essential addition to the corpus of the twentieth-century Left.
The piece is, in fact, an extract from a much longer book, On the Reproduction of Capitalism, until now unavailable in English. Its publication makes possible a reappraisal of seminal Althusserian texts already available in English, their place in Althusser's oeuvre and the relevance of his ideas for contemporary theory. On the Reproduction of Capitalism develops Althusser's conception of historical materialism, outlining the conditions of reproduction in capitalist society and the revolutionary struggle for its overthrow.
Written in the afterglow of May 1968, the text addresses a question that continues to haunt us today: in a society that proclaims its attachment to the ideals of liberty and equality, why do we witness the ever-renewed reproduction of relations of domination? Both a conceptually innovative text and a key theoretical tool for activists, On the Reproduction of Capitalism is an essential addition to the corpus of the twentieth-century Left.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword: Althusser and the āIdeological State Apparatusesā by Etienne Balibar
- Introduction: An Invitation to Reread Althusser by Jacques Bidet
- Editorial Note by Jacques Bidet
- Translatorās Note by G. M. Goshgarian
- To My Readers
- 1. What Is Philosophy?
- 2. What Is a Mode of Production?
- 3. The Reproduction of the Conditions of Production
- 4. Base and Superstructure
- 5. Law
- 6. The State
- 7. Brief Remarks on the Political and Associative Ideological State Apparatuses of the French Capitalist Social Formation
- 8. The Political and Associative Ideological State Apparatuses
- 9. The Reproduction of the Relations of Production
- 10. The Reproduction of the Relations of Production and Revolution
- 11. Further Remarks on Law and Its Reality, the Legal Ideological State Apparatus
- 12. On Ideology
- Appendix 1: On the Primacy of the Relations of Production over the Productive Forces
- Note on the ISAs
- Appendix 2: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses