Category Archives: Louis Althusser

Encountering Althusser

Posted on December 11, 2012 by stuartelden

New collection of essays on Althusser, with a focus on the later/unpublished work. Details here.

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Étienne Balibar – Anti-Humanism, and the Question of Philosophical Anthropology

Posted on May 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Audio recording of a lecture with response and discussion, here. (Thanks to Sam Kinsley for the link) The controversy opposing “humanism” and “anti-humanism” was especially virulent in the 1960s and 70s in France, involving different tendencies of Phenomenology, Marxism, Structuralism … Continue reading →

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Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy discussion

Posted on May 25, 2012 by stuartelden

The discussion that followed Althusser’s famous ‘Lenin and Philosoophy’ lecture is freely available here, in Ted Stolze’s translation. Jean Wahl, Jean Hyppolite, Paul Ricoeur and others asking questions – thanks to David McInerney for the link.

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Pierre Macherey – where to start?

Posted on January 13, 2012 by stuartelden

I was sent the following query as a followup to the recent post on the review of Macherey’s Hegel or Spinoza: With all the recent notices over the new translation of Pierre Macherey’s Hegel or Spinoza, I was thinking of … Continue reading →

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