The Humanist Controversy and Other Writings
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1859844081
ISBN-13
9781859844083
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 17th, 2003
Print length
380 Pages
Weight
508 grams
Dimensions
21.80 x 14.30 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Western philosophy, from c 1900 -
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This collection includes key texts from one of France's most famous philosophers, which intervene in the debate between "the humanist" and the structuralists.
There can be little doubt that Louis Althusser was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his influence subsists in many of the concepts currently deployed in disciplines such as cultural studies, social theory and literary criticism.<br>Yet Althusser was also a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party and a foremost participant in the debates in the human sciences that are marked by the names of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Lacan and Georges Canguilhem. His writings were major interventions in a specific political and theoretical conjuncture and it is this aspect of his work that this new collection of previously untranslated texts seeks to reflect.<br>Consisting of writings from the very height of Althusser’s intellectual powers, during the period 1966-67, this book covers, among other things, the critique of Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism, the theory of discourse and its relationship to psychoanalysis, the place of Ludwig Feuerbach, the tasks of Marxist philosophy, and the famous "humanist controversy."
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