Philosophy of the Encounter Later Writings, 1978-1987

Name: Philosophy of the Encounter Later Writings, 1978-1987
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ISBN: 9781844675531

ISBN-10: 184467553X

ISBN-13: 9781844675531

Edition: 2006

Authors: Louis Althusser, Oliver Corpet, Francois Matheron, G. M. Goshgarian

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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…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 6/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Note on the French Texts


List of Abbreviations


Translator's Introduction


Letter to Merab Mardashvili


Marx in his Limits


The Underground Current of the Materialism of the Encounter


Correspondence about 'Philosophy and Marxism'


Philosophy and Marxism


Portrait of the Materialist Philosopher


Index