Althusser and his contemporaries : philosophy's perpetual war / Warren Montag.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montag, Warren.

Series:

Post-Contemporary Interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Althusser, Louis, 1918-1990.

Poststructuralism.

Structuralism.

Local Subjects:

Althusser, Louis, 1918-1990.

Poststructuralism.

Structuralism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Read Althusser Today?; Part I. Structure; Chapter 1. The Theoretical Conjuncture: Structure, Structurality, Structuralism; Chapter 2. Toward a Prehistory of Structuralism: From Montesquieu to Dilthey; Chapter 3. Settling Accounts with Phenomenology: Husserl and His Critics; Chapter 4. Lévi-Strauss: Ancestors and Descendants, Causes and Effects; Chapter 5. Between Spinozists: The Function of Structure in Althusser, Macherey, and Deleuze; Part II. Subject; Chapter 6. Marxism and Humanism

Chapter 7. Althusser and Lacan: Toward a Genealogy of the Concept of InterpellationChapter 8. Althusser and Foucault: Apparatuses of Subjection; Part III. Origin/End; Chapter 9. The Late Althusser: Materialism of the Encounter or Philosophy of Nothingness?; Chapter 10. The End of Destiny: Althusser before Althusser; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)

ISBN:

9780822399049

0822399040

OCLC:

842885301