Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

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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. Dr Lyubomir Pozharliev, historian of infrastructure and technology, is a Research Associate and Postdoc at the Department of Eastern European History at Justus-Liebig University Giessen. The Spectre of Hegel gives a unique insight into Althusser’s engagement with a philosophy he would later renounce. The Spectre of Hegel collects the writings of the young Althusser, before his final epistemological break with the philosopher’s work in 1953. “Novel and interesting, filling a gap in our understanding of Althusser’s development. ” —Capital and Class