ALTHUSSER LOUIS

(P/B) PHILOSOPHY AND THE SPONTANEOUS PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENTISTS
Collected here are Althusser's most significant philosophical writings from 1965 to 1978. Intended to contribute, in his own words, to a "left-wing critique of Stalinism that would help put some substance back into the revolutionary project here in the West," they are the record of a shared history. At the same time they chart Althusser's critique of the theoretical system unveiled in his own major works, and his developing practice of philosophy as a "revolutionary weapon." Attesting to the unique place which Althusser has occupied in mod...
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(P/B) PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENCOUNTER
A profound exploration of questions of determinism and contingency, from Epicurus to Marx. 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 explorat...
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(H/B) FOR MARX
A milestone in the development of post-war Marxist thought. This is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of "structuralist Marxism" which was presided over by the fascinating and enigmatic figure of Louis Althusser. Structuralism constituted an intellectual revolution in the 1960s and 1970s and radically transformed the way philosophy, political and social theory, history, science, and aestheti...
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(P/B) THE HUMANIST CONTROVERSY AND OTHER WRITINGS
There can be little doubt that Louis Althusser was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his influence subsists in many of the concepts currently deployed in disciplines such as cultural studies, social theory and literary criticism. Yet Althusser was also a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party and a foremost participant in the debates in the human sciences that are marked by the names of Claude Levi-Strauss, Jacques Lacan and Georges Canguilhem. His writings were major interventions in a spec...
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ΝΑ ΔΙΑΒΑΣΟΥΜΕ ΤΟ ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟ
«Διαβάσαμε το Κεφάλαιο ως φιλόσοφοι, δηλαδή του θέσαμε το ερώτημα ποια είναι η ειδοποιός διαφορά του αντικειμένου του και του λόγου του. Αναρωτηθήκαμε σε κάθε βήμα της ανάγνωσής μας σε τι διαφέρει το αντικείμενο του Κεφαλαίου από το αντικείμενο της κλασικής (και της σύγχρονης) οικονομίας, αλλά και από το αντικείμενο των νεανικών έργων του Μαρξ, κυρίως των Χειρογράφων του 1844. Άρα σε τι διαφέρει ο λόγος του Κεφαλαίου από το λόγο της κλασικής οικονομίας και από το φιλοσοφικό (ιδεολογικό) λόγο του νεαρού Μαρξ; Η φιλοσοφική ανάγνωση του Κεφαλ...
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ΓΙΑ ΤΟΝ ΜΑΡΞ
Οι κομμουνιστές αγωνίζονται για την κατάργηση των τάξεων και για μια κομμουνιστική κοινωνία, όπου κάποια μέρα όλοι οι άνθρωποι θα είναι ελεύθεροι και αδερφωμένοι. Ολόκληρη η κλασική μαρξιστική παράδοση όμως απέφυγε να χαρακτηρίσει το μαρξισμό σας ανθρωπισμό. Γιατί; Επειδή πρακτικά, δηλαδή στα γεγονότα, τη λέξη ανθρωπισμός την εκμεταλλεύεται η αστική ιδεολογία, και τη χρησιμοποιεί για να καταπολεμήσει, δηλαδή να σκοτώσει, μιαν άλλη, αληθινή και για το προλεταριάτο ζωτική λέξη: την ταξική πάλη. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ...
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ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΑ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΙΤΙΚΗΣ

ΑΠΑΝΤΗΣΗ ΣΤΟΝ ΤΖΩΝ ΛΙΟΥΙΣ

(P/B) THE SPECTRE OF HEGEL
Louis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling with the intellectual inheritance of Hegel and Catholicism. The Spectre of Hegel collects the writings of the young Althusser, before his final epistemological break with the philosopher’s work in 1953. Including his famed essay ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’, The Spectre of Hegel gives a unique insight into Althusser’s engagement with a philosophy he would later renounce. (From th...
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ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΚΑ

ΤΟ ΜΕΛΛΟΝ ΔΙΑΡΚΕΙ ΠΟΛΥ - ΤΑ ΓΕΓΟΝΟΤΑ