AcknowledgementsNote on the TextA Conversation on Literary History (1963)Supplementary Note on History (1965-1966?)On Genesis (1966)How Can Something Substantial Change? (1970)To Gretzky (1973) (extract)Draft of a Reply to Pierre Vilar (1973?)Book on Imperialism (1973) (selections)Marx and History (1975)On History (1986)Notes
Louis Althusser (1918-1990) was a leading Marxist philosopher and an influential figure in the French Communist Party. He taught philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and his many books include For Marx and Reading Capital (with Étienne Balibar and others) and Lenin and Philosophy.collected in this volume.