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Althusser was responding to his own conjuncture the balance of forces and network of contradictions constituting a particular political. Let this book be, before all else, a book about ordinary rain. Here i am using class humanism in the sense of lenins statement that the october socialist revolution had given power to the working classes, the workers and the poor peasants, and that, on their behalf, it had secured conditions of life, action and development that they had never known before. Pdf one of the central topics of study in the humanities is the question of ideology. Louis al thusser was born in algeria in 1918 and died in. Spanning the years 1964 to 1973, on ideology contains the seminal text, ideology and ideological state apparatus 1970, which revolutionized the concept of subject formation. On the reproduction of capitalism louis althusser 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. Althusserphilosophy of the encounter louis althusser. He is known primarily for his work on twentiethcentury french theory, especially althusser and his circle, as well as his studies of the philosopher spinoza.

Hegel, sive spinoza or hegel as his own true other, hegel after spinoza, ed. Warren montag teaches 18thcentury british and european literature with particular reference to political philosophy. Having looked at althusser s idea of materialisme aleatoire it occured to me that instead of relying on old lucretiuss second hand account of epicuruss now lost works. Today, there is a recrudescence of interest in his thought, especially in light of his later work, published in english. Translators introduction to louis althusser, philosophy. For both are the products of conceptual stasis, erected, stone upon stone, from static, a. Althusser only uses it to indicate the time of the proof, the fact that the concepts emerge in a certain order in the proof, an order which has nothing to do with the historical emergence of the real objects of those concepts. His father, charlesjoseph althusser, was a lieutenant officer in the french army and a bank clerk, while his mother, lucienne marthe berger, a devout roman catholic, worked as a schoolteacher. It looks at althussers critique of the concept of commodity fetishism and suggests a possible response.

Using the data merge panel in indesign, you can easily create multiple variations of your document by merging a data source file csv or txt file with an indesign document. The political conclusions of althusser s book are of the utmost importance to the current european conjuncture. Encountering althusser the most recent volumes of critical commentaries on althusser in english date from the early to mid1990s, prior to the widespread availability of the late althussers texts in the anglophone world in the last decade. 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. Today, there is a recrudescence of interest in his thought, especially in light of his later work, published in english as philosophy of the encounter verso, 2006. Limits that he believed had to be crossed if marxism. Encountering althusser xiii part i aleatory materialism and the philosophy of the encounter 1 1 the hazards of aleatory materialism in the late philosophy of louis althusser andre tosel 3 2 rethinking aleatory materialism panagiotis sotiris n 3 an immense aspiration to being. Organized in four sections that represent the main currents in althussers scholarship, the book discusses materialism and the different formulations of the relationship between politics and philosophy, althussers interpretations of political thinkers including machiavelli, deleuze and gramsci, the resources he provides to critique political economy and politics in postmarxist thought, and the. Translators introduction to louis althusser, philosophy of the encounter. The underground current rather, the amorphous manuscript out of which fran. Louis pierre althusser 19181990 was a french marxist philosopher. Louis al thusser was born in algeria in 1918 and died in france in 1990.

A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. There are over a dozen pdf tools on our site for you to convert, edit, sign and compress your pdfs further, all for your convenience. Weve previously whipped up a guide on rearranging pdf. Every encounter with althusser is a political encounter. Day school of library and information science indiana university it is raining. Verso, july 2006 in memory of constance coiner, 19481996 i philosophy of the encounter collects nearly all the philosophical work that louis althusser produced from late 1977 to the year he stopped writing philosophy, 1987. More generally in these, his last writings, althusser was concerned to point out the limits of marxs thought. There are also functions to split, merge, and delete pages of pdf documents as well. This is the work in which louis althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. However, interpreting althusser in terms of structuralism obscures the theoretical intervention he sought to make in the politics of the pcf, which made him so threatening to the party bureaucracy. Balibar, on the other hand, uses it to designate the theory of the transition from. Key arguments in louis althusser s ideology and ideological state apparatuses the capitalist state requires not only a realistic mechanistic means of reproducing goods machinery and workers to operate it, but also a reliable means of reproducing the labourpower that produces the goods.

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 tradition in the history of western thought which stretches from epicurus through spinoza and machiavelli to marx, derrida and heidegger. Biographical notes encountering althusser giorgos fourtounis phd in philosophy of science is assistant professor of philosophy in the department of political science and history, panteion university athens, greece. Encounter, date, respectively, from 197879 and 198283. Philosophy of the encounter, page 29 the shift to seeing the epistemological break as being gradual is realistic. In the 1960s, in the wake of the stabilization of the postwwii and cold war period, the rapid expansion of a new international cycle of political and social struggles was the driving force for a renewal of marxist theory. For marx, first published in france in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of structuralist marxism which was presided over by the fascinating and enigmatic figure of louis althusser. Merge data to create form letters, envelopes, or mailing. About encountering althusser french philosopher louis pierre althusser 1918 1990 helped define the politicotheoretical conjuncture of pre and post1968. He taught philosophy for many years at the ecole n ormale superieure in paris and was a. Del lucchese, conflict, power and multitude in machiavelli and spinoza. This is not just because of his life or his times or even his marxism but because we believe, with althusser, that materialist philosophy is a political weapon. For example, use the data merge functionality to create hundreds of variations of letters, envelopes, or mailing labels quickly and.