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Letters to Franca collects together the 500 extraordinary letters Louis Althusser wrote to Franca Madonia between 1961 and 1973. A collection of writings which reveal a different Althusser who Franca claimed, when commenting on the letters, neither quite the same, nor quite another. as his public persona. The letters also narrate the most productive part of Althusser's intellectual life and the time in which his most characteristic works were elaborated and published.The correspondence thus allows a unique insight into the laboratory' of Althusser's theoretical, institutional and political trajectory, offering an intimate account of the establishment of Althusserian Marxism and the intellectual, historical and political milieu within which it came to prominence. But the correspondence also, of course, charts the story of Althusser's relationship with Franca Madonia, encountered in 1961 and becoming Althusser''s lover, intellectual confidante and Italian translator; the letters

Letters to Franca 19611972

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: 1/20/2025
      ISBN13: 9781350118850, 978-1350118850
      ISBN10: 1350118850
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      Book Synopsis
      Letters to Franca collects together the 500 extraordinary letters Louis Althusser wrote to Franca Madonia between 1961 and 1973. A collection of writings which reveal a different Althusser who Franca claimed, when commenting on the letters, neither quite the same, nor quite another. as his public persona. The letters also narrate the most productive part of Althusser's intellectual life and the time in which his most characteristic works were elaborated and published.The correspondence thus allows a unique insight into the laboratory' of Althusser's theoretical, institutional and political trajectory, offering an intimate account of the establishment of Althusserian Marxism and the intellectual, historical and political milieu within which it came to prominence. But the correspondence also, of course, charts the story of Althusser's relationship with Franca Madonia, encountered in 1961 and becoming Althusser''s lover, intellectual confidante and Italian translator; the letters

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