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Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-1987

By Louis Althusser , François Matheron , G. M. Goshgarian , Oliver Corpet

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2006
ISBN
184467553X, 9781844675531
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7193530 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
350\347
Time added
2013-12-15 13:00:45

Description

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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