Althusser

The Detour of Theory

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ID23197072
AuthorsGregory Elliott (0000-0002-4976-6838), Gail Elliott (0000-0002-2264-1736, corresponding author)
Year2006
Publication date2006-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAlthusser Vol. 13 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789047410751
OpenAlexW4248313163
ISBN9789047410751
LanguageEN
Citations received10

First published in 1987, Althusser, The Detour of Theory was widely received as the fullest account of its subject to date. Drawing on a wide range of hitherto untranslated material, it examined the political and intellectual contexts of Althusser’s ‘return to Marx’ in the mid-1960s; analysed the novel character of the Marxism developed in his major works; charted their author’s subsequent evolution, from his self-criticism to the proclamation of a ‘crisis of Marxism’; and concluded with a balance-sheet of Althusser’s contribution to historical materialism. For this second edition, Gregory Elliott has added a substantial postscript in which he surveys the posthumous edition of the French philosopher’s work published in the 1990s, from the early writings of the 1940s through to the late texts of the 1980s, relating the unknown Althusser revealed by them to the familiar figure of For Marx and Reading Capital, together with a comprehensive bibliography of Althusser’s oeuvre.

Art · Capital (architecture) · Character (mathematics) · Criticism · Epistemology · Historical materialism · Literature · Marxist philosophy · Materialism · Political science · Politics · Proclamation · Reading (process) · Subject (documents) · History · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Social Sciences and Governance

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