{"product_id":"letters-to-franca-19611972-9781350118850","title":"Letters to Franca 19611972","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLetters to Franca \u003c\/i\u003ecollects 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","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577899258199,"sku":"9781350118850","price":133.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350118850.jpg?v=1746097091","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/letters-to-franca-19611972-9781350118850","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}