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A philosophy for communism : rethinking Althusser /
"In A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser Panagiotis Sotiris attempts a reading of the work of the French philosopher centered upon his deeply political conception of philosophy. Althusser's endeavour is presented as a quest for a new practice of philosophy that would enable a n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Historical materialism book series ;
volume 211 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part One: Structure, Conjuncture, Encounter
- 1 The Many Readings and Misreadings of Althusser
- 1.1 The polemic against theoreticist structuralism
- 1.2 Althusser as the repetition of communist orthodoxy
- 1.3 Althusser's work as rupture of the dialectic of theory and practice
- 1.4 The possibility of another reading
- 2 Althusser and Hegel: The Never-ending Confrontation
- 2.1 The 1947 Thesis
- 2.2 The polemics against French Hegelianism
- 2.3 The Critique of Hegel
- 3 'This man is indeed alone in facing his task': Althusser on Montesquieu
- 3.1 Montesquieu's revolution in method
- 3.2 Montesquieu's politics
- 3.3 Montesquieu as anti-teleology
- 4 Structure Revisited
- 4.1 'Althusser of the structure' vs. 'Althusser of the conjuncture'?
- 4.2 High Althusserianism revisited
- 4.3 Structures without structuralism?
- 4.4 Althusser's self-criticism: From structures to enduring relations
- 4.5 The critique of Feuerbach as critique of Phenomenology and Structuralism
- 4.6 From structure to the conjuncture
- 5 Materialism as Philosophy of the Encounter
- 5.1 An Althusserian Kehre?
- 5.2 Rethinking the genealogy of the encounter
- 5.3 The encounter as anti-teleology and as new practice of politics
- 6 From the Critique of Natural Law to the Void of the Forest and the Inexistence of the Origin: Althusser on Rousseau
- 6.1 The 1956 course
- 6.2 The 1958-59 course
- 6.3 The 1965-66 course
- 6.4 The 1972 course
- 6.5 A comparison between the three courses
- 7 From the 'Hidden God' to the Materialism of the Encounter: Althusser and Pascal
- 7.1 Althusser in captivity and Pascal
- 7.2 Lucien Goldmann and the 'Hidden God'
- 7.3 From the materiality of ideological practices to aleatory materialism
- 8 The Difficulties of Being a Materialist in Philosophy: Assessing Aleatory Materialism
- 8.1 The genealogy of aleatory materialism
- 8.2 A philosophy of the encounter
- 8.3 Pierre Raymond on aleatory materialism
- 8.4 Contradictions of aleatory materialism
- 8.5 Contingent encounter or materialist dialectic?
- 9 Spinoza in Althusser-as-Laboratory
- 9.1 Spinozist epistemology
- 9.2 Spinoza and singularity
- 9.3 Spinoza and the rejection of classical theories of knowledge
- 9.4. Spinoza in the genealogy of the materialism of the encounter
- 10 Structure and/as Conjuncture
- 10.1 Rethinking singularity
- 10.2 Contradiction and antagonism
- 10.3 Specific historicities
- 10.4 The dialectic of structure and conjuncture and the recurring necessity of philosophical interventions
- Part Two: A New Practice of Philosophy
- 11 Althusser's Struggle with the Definition of Philosophy
- 11.1 The aporiasb of theoretical practice
- 11.2 The politics of the epistemological break
- 11.3 Philosophical self-criticism
- 11.4 Philosophy and/as politics
- 11.5 The spontaneous philosophy of the scientists
- 11.6 Philosophy as class struggle
- 12 Philosophy as Laboratory
- 12.1 Redrawing the line of demarcation with idealism
- 12.2 The margin and the encounter
- 12.3 Philosophy and ideology
- 12.4 Different practices of philosophy
- 12.5 Philosophy and abstraction
- 12.6 Practice revisited
- 12.7 Philosophy and practice
- 12.8 How can anybody be a philosopher?
- 13 A Philosopher Always Catches a Moving Train
- 13.1 The return of philosophical metaphors
- 13.2 The new practice of philosophy revisited
- 13.3 Portrait of a materialist philosopher
- 14 Althusser and Gramsci on Philosophy
- 14.1 Gramsci and the philosophy of praxis
- 14.2 Althusser and Gramsci: a missed encounter?
- 14.3 The open question of Marxist philosophy
- Part Three: Is There an Althusserian Politics?
- 5 Althusser 1960-65: Attempting a Theoretical Correction of a Political Strategy in Crisis
- 15.1 Althusser's political engagement
- 15.2 The politics of the 1960-65 texts
- 15.3 The debate on 'student problems'
- 16 The Politics of Theoretical Anti-Humanism
- 16.1 Theoretical anti-humanism as a theoretical and political strategy
- 16.2 Marx's Sixth Thesis revisited
- 16.3 The combination of historicism and humanism as the main danger
- 16.4 The debate at Argenteuil
- 16.5 The Humanist Controversy revisited
- 16.6 Theoretical anti-humanism in the 1970s
- 17 Althusser's Self-Criticism
- 17.1 1966: The turning point
- 17.2 Althusser on the Cultural Revolution
- 17.3 May 1968 and the new challenges
- 17.4 On the Reproduction of Capitalism as a political statement
- 17.5 Balibar and the new practice of politics
- 17.6 The left-wing criticism of Stalinism
- 18 Althusser in the 1970s: Break and Open Criticism of Communist Reformism
- 18.1 The French debate and the abandonment of the dictatorship of the proletariat
- 18.2 Althusser's confrontation with the crisis of the communist movement
- 18.3 Facing the crisis of the Party
- 18.4 The confrontation with the crisis of Marxism
- 18.5 Marx in his Limits
- 18.6 Traces of communism
- 18.7 The debate on the state
- 18.8 Confronting Gramsci
- 19 The Politics of the Encounter: Machiavelli and Beyond
- 19.1 The first confrontation
- 19.2 The founder of a theory without precedent
- 19.3 Thinking under the conjuncture
- 19.4 A philosophical reading of Machiavelli
- 19.5 The encounter and the New Prince
- 19.6 Throwing the dice: Machiavelli in the 1980s texts
- 19.7 Althusser's solitude
- 19.8 A Convergence for Liberation : Althusser in the 1980s
- 19.9 How to organise good encounters?
- 20 How to Make Lasting Encounters: Althusser and Political Subjectivity
- 20.1 The subject as problem and not answer
- 20.2 The return of the subject?
- 20.3 A non-subjectivist theory of subjectivity
- 20.4 Political organisations and collectivities as knowledge processes and forms of collective intellectuality
- 21 The Limits of Althusserian Politics
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
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