Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx Kitap pdf indir

Louis Pierre Althusser (Fransızca: 16 Ekim 1918 - 22 Ekim 1990) Fransız Marksist bir filozoftu. Cezayir'de doğdu ve Paris'teki École normale supérieure'de okudu ve sonunda burada Felsefe Profesörü oldu. Althusser, Fransız Komünist Partisi'nin (Parti communiste français, PCF) uzun süredir üyesi ve bazen güçlü bir eleştirmeniydi. Argümanları ve tezleri, Marksizmin teorik temellerine saldırdığını gördüğü tehditlere karşı kuruldu. Bunlar, hem ampirizmin Marksist teori üzerindeki etkisini hem de Avrupa komünist partilerinde bölünmeler olarak tezahür eden hümanist ve reformist sosyalist yönelimleri ve ayrıca kişilik ve ideoloji kültü sorununu içeriyordu. Althusser, Fransız yapısalcılığının diğer okullarıyla olan ilişkisi basit bir yakınlık olmamasına ve yapısalcılığın birçok yönünü eleştirmesine rağmen, genellikle yapısal bir Marksist olarak anılır. Althusser'in yaşamı, yoğun akıl hastalığı dönemleriyle damgasını vurdu. 1980 yılında sosyolog olan karısı Hélène Rytmann'ı boğarak öldürdü. Delilik nedeniyle yargılanmaya uygun olmadığı ilan edildi ve üç yıl boyunca bir psikiyatri hastanesine yatırıldı. 1990'da ölen çok az akademik çalışma yaptı.

Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx kitap pdf oku ve indir Louis Althusser

In Politics and History, the groundbreaking Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser provides unique appraisals of major writers. In the first two essays of this book, Althusser analyses the work of two of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment: Montesquieu and Rousseau. He shows that although they made considerable advances towards establishing a science of politics, particularly in comparison with the theorists of natural law, they nevertheless remained the victims of the ideologies of their day and class. Montesquieu accepted as given the political notions current in French absolutism, while Rousseau attempted to impose by moral conversion an already outdated mode of production. The third essay examines Marx's relationship to Hegel and elaborates on the discussions of this theme in Althusser's earlier books, For Marx and Lenin and Philosophy. Althusser argues that Marx was able to establish a theory of historical materialism and the possibility of a Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism not simply by turning his back on Hegel, but by extracting and converting certain categories from Hegel's Logic and applying them to English political economy and French socialist political theory.
"I make no claim to say anything new about Montesquieu. Any thing that seems to be new is no more than a reflection on a well- known text or on a pre-existing reflection. I simply hope that I have given a more living portrait of a figure familiar to us in marble or bronze. I am not thinking so much of the inner life of the Seigneur de la Brède, which was so secret that it is still debated whether he was ever a believer, whether he loved his wife as she loved him, whether past the age of thirty-five he experienced the passions of a twenty-year-old. Nor so much the everyday life of the Président de Parlement tired of parliament, of the lord absorbed by his lands, of the vineyardist attentive to his wines and his sales. Others have written of this, and they should be read. I am thinking of a different life, one which time has cloaked in its shadow, and commentaries with their lustre."