Althusserian Theory

From Scientific Truth to Institutional History

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5829633
AutoresPhilip Goldstein (Kansas State University, autor correspondente)
Ano1994
Volume18
Fascículo1
Data de publicação1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoStudies in 20th & 21st century literature (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1555-7839 • E-ISSN: 2334-4415
EditoraNew Prairie Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.4148/2334-4415.1335
OpenAlexW2094071530
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas14

Scholars have emphasized the scientific and the rationalist features of Althusser's work, but few have noted its post-structuralist aspects, especially its Foucauldian accounts of discourse and power. In the early Pour Marx, Althusser divides ideological practices from objective science and theoretical norms from empirical facts; however, in several later essays Althusser repudiates his earlier faith in theory's normative force as well as his broad distinction between science and ideology. He argues that every discipline establishes its own relationship between its ideological history and its formal, scientific ideals. This argument, together with Althusser's earlier rejection of totalizing approaches, establishes important parallels with Foucault's archaeological studies. The literary theory of Tony Bennett, who develops a Foucauldian critique of traditional and Marxist aesthetics, illuminates the rich implications of these parallels for cultural analyses

Argument (complex analysis · Epistemology · Ideology · Marxist philosophy · Normative · Parallels · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political theory and Gramsci