《从古代到封建主义的过渡》涵盖了从公元前8世纪古希腊奴隶制国家形成到公元15世纪欧洲封建主义危机这一漫长历史时期中的欧洲生产方式、社会结构和国家形态的演变过程。

本书是西方马克思主义的代表人物卢卡奇的一部重要著作。在书中，作者首先提出马克思主义不过是一种方法，而后提出“马克思主义辩证法的本质是具体的总体的范畴”、“历史的本质在于它是人类活动的产物”、“物化”等一系列概念。

书名原文:Negative dialektik:据德国美因河畔法兰克福休坎普出版社《阿多尔诺全集》第6卷1984年第3版,参考纽约海葬出版社《否定的辩证法》1973年英译本译出:本书是法兰克福学派重要代表阿多尔诺德代表作。它不仅从哲学上概括了这个学派的“批判理论”的精髓,而且还因为反映了60年代西方社会“新左派”的心声而被奉为他们的政治纲领的理论论证。

No figure among the western Marxist theoreticians has loomed larger in the postwar period than Louis Althusser. A rebel against the Catholic tradition in which he was raised, Althusser studied philosophy and later joined both the faculty of the Ecole normal superieure and the French Communist Party in 1948. Viewed as a "structuralist Marxist," Althusser was as much admired for his independence of intellect as he was for his rigorous defense of Marx. The latter was best illustrated in For Marx (1965), and Reading Capital (1968). These works, along with Lenin and Philosophy (1971) had an enormous influence on the New Left of the 1960s and continues to influence modern Marxist scholarship.
This classic work, which to date has sold more than 30,000 copies, covers the range of Louis Althusser's interests and contributions in philosophy, economics, psychology, aesthetics, and political science.
Marx, in Althusser's view, was subject in his earlier writings to the ruling ideology of his day. Thus for Althusser, the interpretation of Marx involves a repudiation of all efforts to draw from Marx's early writings a view of Marx as a "humanist" and "historicist."
Lenin and Philosophy also contains Althusser's essay on Lenin's study of Hegel; a major essay on the state, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," "Freud and Lacan: A letter on Art in Reply to André Daspre," and "Cremonini, Painter of the Abstract." The book opens with a 1968 interview in which Althusser discusses his personal, political, and intellectual history.