Concrete Critical Theory: Althusser's Marxism

by William S. Lewis and Skidmore College

Taking an analytic and historical approach, this work develops and defends Althusserian critical theory. This theory, it is argued, produces knowledge of how a particular class of people, in a particular time, in a particular place, is dominated, oppressed, or exploited. Moreover, without relying on a general notion of human emancipation, concrete critical theory can suggest political means for the alleviation of these conditions. Because it puts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004503358
• ISBN13: 9789004503359
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 220 Pages