Table of Contents
Foreword: Althusser and the 'Ideological State Apparatuses' Etienne Balibar vii
Introduction: An Invitation to Reread Althusser Jacques Bidet xix
Editorial Note Jacques Bidet xxix
Translator's Note G. M. Goshgarian xxxiii
To My Readers 1
1 What Is Philosophy? 10
2 What Is a Mode of Production? 18
3 The Reproduction of the Conditions of Production 47
4 Base and Superstructure 53
5 Law 57
6 The State 70
7 Brief Remarks on the Political and Associative Ideological State Apparatuses of the French Capitalist Social Formation 94
8 The Political and Associative Ideological State Apparatuses 103
9 The Reproduction of the Relations of Production 140
10 The Reproduction of the Relations of Production and Revolution 148
11 Further Remarks on Law and Its Reality, the Legal Ideological State Apparatus 164
12 On Ideology 171
Appendix 1 On the Primacy of the Relations of Production over the Productive Forces 209
Note on the ISAs 218
Appendix 2 Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses 232
Index 273