Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-233) and index.
Contents:
1. Beginning 1845-1929 -- Marx, Engels and the Hegelian dialectic -- Marxism in France before 1917 -- Hegel in France -- The 1920s -- 2. The irruption 1929-1939 -- Marxism and the crisis of the 1930s -- A new elaboration -- The self-inversting dialectic -- Stalin and domgatism -- In defence of materialism -- 3. War and post-war 1939-1948 -- Marxism and the second world war -- Liberation and reconstruction -- Towards an objective idealism -- Back to Hegel -- 4. Cold War 1948-1956 -- Two camps -- Nadir of philosophy -- Stirrings of recovery -- The early Althusser -- Critiques of the esistentialist dialectic -- 5. New beginnings 1956-1962 -- 1956 and its aftermath -- Lefebvre's problems with Marzism -- Dialectics and dialogue -- Existentialism and the dialectic -- 6. Innovations 1962-1968 Part I -- Althusser: against inversion -- Contradiction and overdetermination -- The new model dialectic -- Althusser and Garaudy -- 7. Explorations 1962-1968 Part 2 -- The destalinazation of philosophy -- Godelier and the cybernetic dialectic -- Tran Duc Thao's materialist inversion -- Garaudy's pluralist dialectic -- Seve and the scientific dialectic -- 8. Changes 1968-1974 -- 1968 -- The fate of Garaudy -- Development of Althusser's theory -- Seve and the new consensus -- 9. New directions 1974-1980.
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