by Louis Althusser · Destino. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423322480
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«El porvenir es largo» is the autobiographical work by Louis Althusser that includes «Los hechos», published by Destino in paperback (484 pages, in Spanish).
Louis Althusser reviews his life: childhood, his relationship with Hélène, his communist militancy, and his comments on Sartre, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, and Derrida. The volume is completed with «Los hechos», an autobiographical sketch that contrasts with the previous text in its detached tone and fantastic elements.
It belongs to the Áncora y Delfín collection, number 691, from Ediciones Destino. First edition: November 1992.
Reading for those interested in French philosophy and autobiographical accounts by intellectuals.
Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became professor of philosophy. Althusser's life was marked by periods of intense mental illness. In 1980, he killed his wife, the sociologist Hélène Rytmann, by strangling her. He was declared unfit to stand trial due to insanity and committed to a psychiatric hospital for three years. He did little further academic work, dying in 1990.
