# Politics and History

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- Book: [Politics and History](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-althusser/politics-and-history) ([Politics and History.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-althusser/politics-and-history.md))
- Authors: [Louis Althusser](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-althusser), [Ben Brewster](https://www.bookquiver.com/ben-brewster)
- Publisher: verso
- ISBN: 978-18-4467-572-2
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2007-01-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the first two essays of this book, Louis Althusser analyses the work of two of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment – Montesquieu and Rousseau. He shows that although they made considerable...