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OverviewAlthusser and His Contemporaries alters and expands understanding of Louis Althusser and French philosophy of the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of pages of previously unpublished work from different periods of Althusser's career have been made available in French since his death in 1990. Based on meticulous study of the philosopher's posthumous publications, as well as his unpublished manuscripts, lecture notes, letters, and marginalia, Warren Montag provides a thoroughgoing reevaluation of Althusser's philosophical project. Montag shows that the theorist was intensely engaged with the work of his contemporaries, particularly Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, and Lacan. Examining Althusser's philosophy as a series of encounters with his peers' thought, Montag contends that Althusser's major philosophical confrontations revolved around three themes: structure, subject, and beginnings and endings. Reading Althusser reading his contemporaries, Montag sheds new light on structuralism, poststructuralism, and the extraordinary moment of French thought in the 1960s and 1970s. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Warren MontagPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.503kg ISBN: 9780822353867ISBN 10: 0822353865 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 01 May 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 243ReviewsWarren 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 InformationWarren 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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