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No figure among the western Marxist theoreticians has loomed larger in the postwar period than Louis Althusser

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Politics, Volume 2 - Social Theory keyword-us-politics No figure among the westernSocial Theory: Its Situation and Its Task is an introduction both to Ungers ideas and to the major debates of contemporary social, political and economic thought. Unger shows how the failures of social science and the criticism of such ambitious, deterministic theories as Marxism offer materials for an alternative practice of social understanding. This alternative severs, once and for all, the link between the explanation of social arrangements and