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Author:   Warren Montag
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780822354000

ISBN 10:   0822354004
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 May 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Why Read Althusser Today? 1 Part I. Structure 1. The Theoretical Conjuncture: Structure, Structurality, Structuralism 15 2. Toward a Prehistory of Structuralism: From Montesquieu to Dilthey 23 3. Settling Accounts with Phenomenology: Husserl and His Critics 36 4. Lévi-Strauss: Ancestors and Descendants, Causes and Effects 53 5. Between Spinozists: The Function of Structure in Althusser, Macherey, and Deleuze 73 Part II. Subject 6. Marxism and Humanism 103 7. Althusser and Lacan: Toward of Genealogy of the Concept of Interpellation 118 8. Althusser and Foucault: Apparatuses of Subjection 141 Part III. Origin/End 9. The Late Althusser: Materialism of the Encounter or Philosophy of Nothingness? 173 10. The End of Destiny: Althusser before Althusser 190 Afterword 209 Notes 213 Bibliography 231 Index 243

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Warren Montag's reconstruction of the Althusserian journey into the hazardous territories of politics and philosophy gives us a fascinating account of the Marxist philosopher's trajectory, while illuminating his interactions with the major works of 'French theory.' There is no equivalent to Montag's interpretation, which rectifies many conventional notions and combines empathy with absolute mastery of the archive and the conceptual problems at stake. But Althusser and His Contemporaries is also a philosophical creation in its own right, delineating what I am tempted to call a negative eschatology no doubt one of Althusser's most exciting 'aleatory' heritages. --etienne Balibar, coauthor of Reading Capital

Like no one else can, Warren Montag brings to life in this wonderful book the adventure of Althusser's thought in all its excitement and brilliance. - Michael Hardt, coauthor of Declaration Warren Montag's reconstruction of the Althusserian journey into the hazardous territories of politics and philosophy gives us a fascinating account of the Marxist philosopher's trajectory, while illuminating his interactions with the major works of 'French theory.' There is no equivalent to Montag's interpretation, which rectifies many conventional notions and combines empathy with absolute mastery of the archive and the conceptual problems at stake. But Althusser and His Contemporaries is also a philosophical creation in its own right, delineating what I am tempted to call a negative eschatology: no doubt one of Althusser's most exciting 'aleatory' heritages. - Etienne Balibar, coauthor of Reading Capital

Author Information

Warren Montag is the Brown Family Professor in Literature, English and Comparative Literary Studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is the author of Louis Althusser; Bodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and His Contemporaries; and The Unthinkable Swift. He is editor of Décalages: A Journal of Althusser Studies.

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