The Future Lasts Forever

A Memoir

Louis Althusser

paperback

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The famous French philosopher's "harrowing" (Voice Literary Supplement) account of madness from the inside.
Chilling. . . What Althusser proves in The Future Lasts Forever is that in addition to his talents for theoretical work, he had a real genius for storytelling. . . As a reader I had the uncanny feeling of inhabiting Althusser's thoughts; repulsed and fascinated by him, as he was by himself, I was terrified and compelled to read on. 
-- Los Angeles Times Book Review

The Future Lasts Forever is the famous French philosopher Louis Althusser's memoir written during his years of confinement in a mental hospital after murdering his wife. Reminiscent to many readers of Strindberg's Diary of a Madman and Styron's Darkness Visible, The Future Lasts Forever is a profound yet subtle exercise in documenting madness from the inside. This paperback edition also includes Althusser's earlier autobiographical essay "The Facts," as well as a preface by Douglas Johnson, Emeritus Professor of French at London University.

Born in 1918, Louis Althusser was one of the most influential French thinkers of the post-war period.  The author of Reading Capital, For Marx, and many other books, he lived in Paris until his death in 1990.
Philosophy / Autobiography
Spring 1995
paperback
6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 384 pages
978-1-56584-278-6

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