Roger Establet Knihy

Together with Louis Althusser’s book For Marx , Reading Capital represents one of the foundational texts of the school of “structuralist Marxism” which transformed the face of modern philosophy and social theory. Presided over by the magnetic and intellectually coruscating figure of Althusser, the structuralist Marxists attempted no less than an intellectual revolution against dominant interpretations of Marx. Seeking to cleanse Marx of all Hegelian impurities and recast his thought on a rigorously scientific basis, in this work Althusser and one of his most brilliant students and colleagues, Etienne Balibar, subjected Marx’s method in Capital , his critique of classical political economy, and the fundamental terms of historical materialism, to searching textual analysis and challenging conceptual reconstruction. Inaugurating a new way of reading Marx that was to prove both intensely stimulating and capable of generating fierce controversy, Reading Capital is a work that cannot be bypassed by anyone interested in Marxism, and in theory more generally, in this century.

L'école française est-elle décadente? Le niveau de l'enseignement actuel est-il supérieur ou inférieur? Dans un essai, sur un ton vigoureux, les auteurs tentent de démolir le "mythe" de la décadence des écoles. Ils font ressortir l'idée que l'enseignement en France donne des résultats aussi bons, dans l'ensemble, que dans d'autres pays. Plusieurs pages de cet ouvrage constituent une analyse sociale de la réalité éducative en France.