Philosophy of the encounter
Subtitle: later writings, 1978-87
By: Louis Althusser ; edited by François Matheron and Oliver Corpet ; translated with an introduction by G.M. Goshgarian.
Contributors: Matheron, François.; Corpet, Olivier.
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London ; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781844675531; 9781844670697
Subjects: Philosophy, Marxist.; Materialism -- History.
Work titles: Sur la philosophie.
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.