This collection gathers Louis Althusser's major essays on pschoanalytic thought - documenting his intense and ambivalent relationship with Lacan, and dramatizing his intellectual journey and troubled personal life.
This collection gathers Louis Althusser's major essays on pschoanalytic thought - documenting his intense and ambivalent relationship with Lacan, and ...
In the late 1970s and 1980s, Louis Althusser endured a period of intense mental instability during which he murdered his wife and was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Spanning this deeply troubling period, this fourth and final volume of political and philosophical writings reveals Althusser wrestling in a creative and unorthodox fashion with a whole series of theoretical problems to produce some of his very finest work. In his profound exploration of questions of determinism and contingency, Althusser developed a "philosophy of the encounter," which he links to a hidden and subterranean...
In the late 1970s and 1980s, Louis Althusser endured a period of intense mental instability during which he murdered his wife and was committed to a p...
There can be little doubt that Louis Althusser was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century and his work lives on in many of the concepts currently deployed in disciplines such as cultural studies, social theory and literary criticism.
There can be little doubt that Louis Althusser was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century and his work lives on in many of ...
No-one and nothing, not even the Congress of a Communist Party, can abolish the dictatorship of the proletariat. That is the most important conclusion of this book by Etienne Balibar. Balibar spells out his reasoning against the background of the 22nd Congress of the French Communist Party, which decided to 'drop' the aim of the dictatorship of the proletariat and to substitute the objective of a 'democratic' road to socialism. His concrete references are therefore usually to arguments put forward within the French Party. But it is quite obvious that the significance of this book is much...
No-one and nothing, not even the Congress of a Communist Party, can abolish the dictatorship of the proletariat. That is the most important conclusion...
"Louis Althusser ist der große Abwesende der gegenwärtigen linken Theorie: Obwohl sein Name nur selten erwähnt wird, sind die von ihm geprägten Begriffe überall zu finden von der Überdetermination bis zu den Ideologischen Staatsapparaten. Es ist an der Zeit, ihn dorthin zurückzuholen, wo er hingehört: in den Mittelpunkt unserer theoretischen Kämpfe." Slavoj i ek §Louis Althussers 1965 in Frankreich erschienener Band Pour Marx (dt. Für Marx, 1968 im Suhrkamp Verlag) revolutionierte die linke Theorie. Althusser brach mit dem ökonomischen Determinismus seiner Zeit und analysierte...
"Louis Althusser ist der große Abwesende der gegenwärtigen linken Theorie: Obwohl sein Name nur selten erwähnt wird, sind die von ihm geprägten Be...
Neuausgabe eines zentralen Textes von Louis Althusser im Rahmen der von Frieder Otto Wolf herausgegebenen Ausgabe Gesammelter Schriften, deren einzelne Bnde in den Verlagen Suhrkamp, VSA, Westflisches Dampfboot erscheinen werden.
Neuausgabe eines zentralen Textes von Louis Althusser im Rahmen der von Frieder Otto Wolf herausgegebenen Ausgabe Gesammelter Schriften, deren einzeln...
Louis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling with the intellectual inheritance of Hegel and Catholicism. "The Spectre of Hegel "collects the writings of the young Althusser, before his final epistemological break with the philosopher s work in 1953. Including his famed essay Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, "The Spectre of Hegel "gives a unique insight into Althusser s engagement with a philosophy he would later renounce."
Louis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling with...
Louis Althusser's renowned short text 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of cultural, political and literary theory. The text has influenced thinkers such as Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek. The piece is, in fact, an extract from a much longer book, On the Reproduction of Capitalism, until now unavailable in English. Its publication makes possible a reappraisal of seminal Althusserian texts already available in English, their place in...
Louis Althusser's renowned short text 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding...
In How to be a Marxist in Philosophy one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to function fruitfully as a political thinker within the discipline and environs of philosophy. This is the first English translation to Althusser's provocative and, often, controversial guide to being a true Marxist philosopher.
Althusser argues that philosophy needs Marxism. It can't exist fully without it. Similarly, Marxism requires the rigour and structures of philosophy to give it form and focus. He calls all thinking people to,...
In How to be a Marxist in Philosophy one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to ...
In How to be a Marxist in Philosophy one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to function fruitfully as a political thinker within the discipline and environs of philosophy. This is the first English translation to Althusser's provocative and, often, controversial guide to being a true Marxist philosopher.
Althusser argues that philosophy needs Marxism. It can't exist fully without it. Similarly, Marxism requires the rigour and structures of philosophy to give it form and focus. He calls all thinking people to,...
In How to be a Marxist in Philosophy one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to ...
