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Titre :
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Philosophy of the encounter : Later Writings, 1978-1987
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Auteurs :
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Louis Althusser ;
G.M. Goshgarian, Traducteur ;
François Matheron, Éditeur scientifique
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Type de document :
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texte imprimé
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Editeur :
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London : Verso Books, 2006
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ISBN/ISSN/EAN :
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978-1-84467-553-1
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Format :
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299 p. / Pal
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Note générale :
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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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Langues:
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Anglais
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Langues originales:
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Français
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Index. décimale :
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194 (Philosophie française moderne)
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Mots-clés:
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Althusser, Louis : 1918-1990
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Résumé :
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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...
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