Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87 by Althusser, Louis

Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781844675531)

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Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87 by Althusser, Louis

Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87

$29.95
Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87 by Althusser, Louis

Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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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: Louis Althusser
ISBN-10: 184467553X
ISBN-13: 9781844675531
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2006
Pages: 350
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.62w x 1.08d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 8
By Louis Althusser
By Louis Althusser
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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. His books include For Marx; Reading Capital (with Etienne Balibar); Essays in Ideology; Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx; Machiavelli and Us; and The Spectre of Hegel.

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