Montag Althusser and His Contemporaries

Philosophy's Perpetual War
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9904-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Montag, Warren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Warren Montag is the Brown Family Professor in Literature, English and Comparative Literary Studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is the author of Louis Althusser; Bodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and His Contemporaries; and The Unthinkable Swift. He is editor of Décalages: A Journal of Althusser Studies.