Philosophy of the Encounter
Later Writings, 1978-1987
Louis Althusser (Author), Oliver Corpet (Editor), François Matheron (Editor), G. M. Goshgarian (Translator)
A Verso book
From Althusser's most prolific period, this book is destined to become a classic.
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.
Book Details
- Paperback
- June 2006
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ISBN 978-1-84467-553-1
- 5.6 × 8.3 in
/ 299 pages
- Territory Rights: USA and Dependencies and the Philippines.
Endorsements & Reviews
“
Althusser traversed so many lives—so many personal, historical, philosophical and political adventures; marked, inflected, influenced so many discourses, actions and existences by the radiant and provocative force of his thought—that the most diverse and contradictory accounts could never exhaust their source.
” — Jacques Derrida
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