Philosophy of the Encounter

Later Writings, 1978-1987

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Louis Althusser

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

June 17th, 2006

Author

Louis Althusser

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Edited by Francois Matheron
Edited by Oliver Corpet
Translated by G M Goshgarian

Pages

350

Dimensions

142x211x28

ISBN-13

9781844675531

Product ID

2096077

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