Louis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling with the intellectual inheritance of Hegel and Catholicism. The Spectre of Hegel collects the writings of the young Althusser, before his final epistemological break with the philosopherâs work in 1953. Including his famed essay âIdeology and Ideological State Apparatusesâ, The Spectre of Hegel gives a unique insight into Althusserâs engagement with a philosophy he would later renounce.
Louis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling with the intellectual inheritance of Hegel and Catholicism. The Spectre of Hegel collects the writings of the young Althusser, before his final epistemological break with the philosopherâs work in 1953. Including his famed essay âIdeology and Ideological State Apparatusesâ, The Spectre of Hegel gives a unique insight into Althusserâs engagement with a philosophy he would later renounce.