Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-1987 by Louis Althusser, Oliver Corpet (Editor)
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- Pub. Date: June 2006
- 220pp
- Sales Rank: 158,059
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: June 2006
- Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
- Format: Paperback, 220pp
- Sales Rank: 158,059
- ISBN-13: 9781844675531
- ISBN: 184467553X
Synopsis
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.
Biography
Louis Althusser taught political philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party. Many major figures studied with him, including Derrida and Foucault, and his work marked a new beginning for post-war political philosophy.
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