Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophys Perpetual War

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Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Why Read Althusser Today? 1Part I. Structure 1. The Theoretical Conjuncture: Structure, Structurality, Structuralism 152. Toward a Prehistory of Structuralism: From Montesquieu to Dilthey 233. Settling Accounts with Phenomenology: Husserl and His Critics 364. Levi-Strauss: Ancestors and Descendants, Causes and Effects 535. Between Spinozists: The Function of Structure in Althusser, Macherey, and Deleuze 73Part II. Subject 6. Marxism and Humanism 1037. Althusser and Lacan: Toward of Genealogy of the Concept of Interpellation 1188. Althusser and Foucault: Apparatuses of Subjection 141Part III. Origin/End 9. The Late Althusser: Materialism of the Encounter or Philosophy of Nothingness? 17310. The End of Destiny: Althusser before Althusser 190Afterword 209Notes 213Bibliography 231Index 243