Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-1987

Althusser, Louis

ISBN 10 : 184467553X ISBN 13 : 9781844675531

Editeur : Verso Books, 2006

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Louis Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in France in 1990. He taught philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party. His books include For Marx; Reading Capital (with Etienne Balibar); Essays in Ideology; Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx; Machiavelli and Us; and The Spectre of Hegel.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 184467553X
• ISBN 13: 9781844675531
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 350