Althusser and Derrida at the Limits of Transcendental Philosophy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21790503 |
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| Authors | David Maruzzella (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-47 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Derrida Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-8519 • E-ISSN: 1754-8500 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/drt.2022.0274 |
| OpenAlex | W4229079233 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
In this paper I address Jacques Derrida's consistent phenomenological critique of his colleague Louis Althusser. Over the course of many decades, Derrida explicitly draws attention to what he takes to be Althusser's problematic pre-critical scientism, which is the direct result of the latter's failure to engage with Husserl and Heidegger. However, as I attempt to show, Althusser sought to reveal deeper problems associated with transcendental-critical questions in post-Kantian philosophy. For Althusser, questions concerning the ‘conditions of possibility’ of knowledge and experience reproduce the idealist problematic that he calls ‘empiricism’. Charting a different trajectory within contemporary French philosophy, Althusser combines insights from Spinoza, Marx, and other figures often unmentioned by Derrida to produce a novel, non-transcendental philosophical approach to key problems that arise in epistemology and the philosophy of science
Empiricism · Epistemology · Scientism · Transcendental number · Transcendental philosophy · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy, Sociology, Political Theory · Political theory and Gramsci
| Highly cited | No |
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