| 1 | This article focuses on the multiple theoretical logics in the youth Althusser s philosophical thoughts. | |
| 2 | This is what the author has learned from the "contrapuntal reading" method advocated by Edward Said and the "symptomatic reading" instead of "sympathetic reading" preferred by Louis Althusser. | |
| 3 | French structuralist Louis Pierre Althusser s symptomatic reading is significant in guiding the readers to read English literature works. | |
| 4 | As the kernel of Althusser s theory, "Theoretical anti-humanism" represents a feature of the argument. | |
| 5 | Stalinist failure to build an alternative modernity nudged him increasingly to believe in Mao s theory and practice of cultural revolution. |