The Althusserian Legacy (Postmodern Occasions) - Softcover

Kaplan, E. Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0860915948 ISBN 13: 9780860915942

Verlag: Verso Books, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

Louis Althusser remained until his death in 1990 the most controversial of the "master thinkers" who emerged from the turbulent Parisian intellectual scene of the 1960s. The publication of his bestselling posthumous "autobiography", L'avenir dure longtemps, has now refueled some of these controversies. Hugely influential, whether lauded or vilified, Althusser occupies a unique place in contemporary philosophy. What is certain is that Althusserian themes and motifs continue to constitute a vital region in materialist thought.

The Althusserian Legacy is the first collective attempt to draw up a balance sheet, not on Althusser alone but on the questions that his work helped to bring to the forefront of Marxist theory. The volume brings together work in history, philosophy, economics, sociology, and literary criticism, all of it derived from or significantly inflected by Althusser. Taken together, the essays assess soberly, critically, but always generously, the full extent of his legacy.

The volume contains a lengthy interview with Jacques Derrida, a long-time friend and colleague of Althusser at the École Normale in Paris, and concludes with obituaries by Derrida and Gregory Elliott. Perhaps only now, more than a decade after his active intellectual life has come to a close, is it possible to render sound, just judgments on the meaning and significance of this much-debated body of work. The Althusserian Legacy is a rich beginning to that important task.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

E. Ann Kaplan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Humanities Institute at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is the author most recently of Rocking Around the Clock: Music Television, Postmodernism and Consumer Culture.

Michael Sprinker was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the History of Historical Materialism and History and Ideology in Proust are also published by Verso. Together with Mike Davis, he founded Verso's Haymarket Series and guided it until his death in 1999.

Alain Lipietz works at the Centre d'etude prospectives d' economie mathematique appliquees a Ia planification in Paris and is the author of L'Audace ou l'enlisement.

Étienne Balibar is a French Marxist philosopher and the most celebrated student of Louis Althusser. He is also one of the leading exponents of French Marxist philosophy and the author of Spinoza and Politics, The Philosophy of Marx and co-author of Race, Nation and Class and Reading Capital.

Gregory Elliott is a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and author of Althusser: The Detour of Theory and Labourism and the English Genius: The Strange Decay of Labour England?.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0860915948
• ISBN 13: 9780860915942
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 254
• Herausgeber: Sprinker Michael
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