by Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar · Siglo XXI de España Editores, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432314391
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«Para leer El Capital» is the essay by Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar, published by Siglo XXI de España Editores, S.A. in paperback (512 pages, in Spanish).
This foundational work of structuralist Marxism revisits Karl Marx's Capital with two approaches: Althusser's critical reading, which seeks to separate Marx's thought from Hegel's influence, and Balibar's analysis of historical materialism. Together they propose a new way of reading Marx and understanding social theory, and it had a great impact on twentieth-century intellectual debate.
The original title of the work is Lire Le Capital, first published in French in 1965. This Spanish edition belongs to the Biblioteca del pensamiento socialista collection and includes a translation by Marta Harnecker.
Recommended for students and readers interested in Marxist philosophy, political economy, and contemporary critical 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.
