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Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-1987

By Louis Althusser

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2006
ISBN
9781844675531, 9781844670697
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
513 kB (524955 bytes)
Pages
350\0
Time added
2024-01-12 05:46:33

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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