Philosophy of the encounter: later writings, 1978-87
Louis Althusser
From Althusser's most prolific period, this book is destined to become a classic.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.
Anno:
2006
Edizione:
1
Casa editrice:
Verso Books
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
347
ISBN 10:
1844670694
ISBN 13:
9781844670697
File:
PDF, 6.76 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2006