Althusser's lesson / Jacques Rancière ; translated by Emiliano Battista.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rancière, Jacques, author.

Contributor:

Battista, Emiliano, translator.

Standardized Title:

Leçon d'Althusser. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Althusser, Louis, 1918-1990.

Althusser, Louis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Althusser's Lesson represents the foundations of Jacques Rancire's theoretical project. It marks the moment at which he emerges from the tutelage of his mentor, Louis Althusser, and begins to outline the themes he will go on to develop in his later writings. Here Rancire is already working out a non-economic and non-Marxist understanding of politics. The events of May 1968 confronted Althusser's version of a Marxism of order with one of subversion that in one fell swoop rendered Althusser's thought outdated. Yet, when Althusser finally broke his silence on this issue, with the publication in 1

Contents:

A lesson in orthodoxy : M. L. teaches John Lewis that it is the masses which make history

A lesson in politics : philosophers do not become kings

A lesson in self-criticism : class struggle rages in theory

A lesson in history : the damages of humanism

A discourse in its place

Appendix. For the record : on the theory of ideology.

Notes:

"Originally published in French as La leçon d'Althusser, Jacques Rancière, 1975"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-16318-7

9786613163189

1-4411-1402-5

OCLC:

741492907