| Althusser, the Infinite Farewell Contributor(s): de Ípola, Emilio (Author), Arnall, Gavin (Translator), Balibar, Étienne (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0822370158 ISBN-13: 9780822370154 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $94.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 194 |
| LCCN: 2017049282 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (0.92 lbs) 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Althusser, The Infinite Farewell--originally published in Spanish and appearing here in English for the first time--Emilio de pola contends that Althusser's oeuvre is divided between two fundamentally different and at times contradictory projects. The first is the familiar Althusser, that of For Marx and Reading Capital. Symptomatically reading these canonical texts alongside Althusser's lesser-known writings, de pola reveals a second, subterranean current of thought that flows throughout Althusser's classic formulations and which only gains explicit expression in his later works. This subterranean current leads Althusser to move toward an aleatory materialism, or a materialism of the encounter. By explicating this key aspect of Althusser's theoretical practice, de pola revitalizes classic debates concerning major theoretico-political topics, including the relationship between Marxism, structuralism, and psychoanalysis; the difference between ideology, philosophy, and science; and the role of contingency and subjectivity in political encounters and social transformation. In so doing, he underscores Althusser's continuing importance to political theory and Marxist and post-Marxist thought. |