Louis Althusser

Philosophy of the Encounter (eBook, ePUB)

Later Writings, 1978-1987
Redaktion: Matheron, François; Corpet, Oliver / Übersetzer: Goshgarian, G M

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 tradition in the history of Western thought which stretches from Epicurus through Spinoza and Machiavelli to Marx, Derrida and Heidegger.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789602319
• Artikelnr.: 66424775

Autorenporträt

Louis Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in France in 1990. He taught Philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party.