Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-1987 - Softcover

Althusser, Louis

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ISBN 10: 184467553X ISBN 13: 9781844675531

Verlag: Verso Books, 2006

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"Althusser traversed so many lives--so many personal, historical, philosophical and political adventures; marked, inflected, influenced so many discourses, actions and existences by the radiant and provocative force of his thought--that the most diverse and contradictory accounts could never exhaust their source." -- Jacques Derrida

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 184467553X
• ISBN 13: 9781844675531
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 350
• Herausgeber: Corpet Oliver, Matheron Francois