title: Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx (Radical Thinkers)
author:  Louis Althusser 
description: One reads him with excitement. There is no mystery about his capacity to inspire the intelligent young.Eric Hobsbawm<br /><br />Althusser traversed so many livesso many personal, historical, philosophical and political adventures; marked, inflected, influenced so many discourses, actions and existences by the radiant and provocative force of his thoughtthat the most diverse and contradictory accounts could never exhaust their source.Jacques Derrida
zlib_text: Existential Marxism in Postwar 
  France: From Sartre to Althusser
  
  Existential Marxism in Postwar
  France
  From Sartre to Althusser
  Mark Poster
  Princeton University Press
  Princeton, New Jersey
  
  Copyright © 1975 by Princeton University Press
  Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
  In the U.K.: Princeton University Press, Guildford, Surrey
  All Rights Reserved
  LCC 75-3471
  ISBN 0-691-01994-0 (paperback edn.)
  ISBN 0-691-07212-4 (hardcover edn.)
  Parts of this book have appeared in the following journals: an early 
  version of parts of Chapter 1 appeared as “The Hegel Renaissance,” 
  Telos, 16 (Summer 1973), 109-127; an early version of parts of 
  Chapter 8 appeared as “Althusser on History Without Man,” Politi­
  cal Theory, Vol. 2, No. 4 (November 1974), 393-409.
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  be found on the last printed page of this book
  This book has been composed in Linotype Caledonia
  Printed in the United States of America
  by Princeton University Pres