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«Montesquieu, la política y la historia» is the political philosophy essay by Louis Althusser, in paperback (150 pages, in Spanish).
The essay analyzes Montesquieu's work to explore the origin of modern political science and its link with history. Althusser distinguishes between the appearance of events and the conflicts that explain them, and questions the received notions with which historical knowledge is approached from a Marxist perspective.
Spanish translation by M.ª Esther Benítez; the work belongs to the Ariel quincenal collection (no. 87).
For readers of political philosophy, history of ideas, and studies on Marxist thought.
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.
