Althusser and His Contemporaries - Philosophy''s Perpetual War

This thoroughgoing reevaluation of Louis Althusser's philosophical project shows that the theorist was intensely engaged with the work of his contemporaries, particularly Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, and Lacan.

Sommario

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Why Read Althusser Today? 1

Part I. Structure

1. The Theoretical Conjuncture: Structure, Structurality, Structuralism 15

2. Toward a Prehistory of Structuralism: From Montesquieu to Dilthey 23

3. Settling Accounts with Phenomenology: Husserl and His Critics 36

4. Lévi-Strauss: Ancestors and Descendants, Causes and Effects 53

5. Between Spinozists: The Function of Structure in Althusser, Macherey, and Deleuze 73

Part II. Subject

6. Marxism and Humanism 103

7. Althusser and Lacan: Toward of Genealogy of the Concept of Interpellation 118

8. Althusser and Foucault: Apparatuses of Subjection 141

Part III. Origin/End

9. The Late Althusser: Materialism of the Encounter or Philosophy of Nothingness? 173

10. The End of Destiny: Althusser before Althusser 190

Afterword 209

Notes 213

Bibliography 231

Index 243

Info autore

Warren Montag

Riassunto

This thoroughgoing reevaluation of Louis Althusser's philosophical project shows that the theorist was intensely engaged with the work of his contemporaries, particularly Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, and Lacan.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Warren Montag, Montag Warren
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.05.2013
• EAN: 9780822353867
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5386-7
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: dall'antichità ai giorni nostri; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata