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Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87

Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87

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Philosophy

ISBN10: 184467553X
ISBN13: 9781844675531
Publisher: Verso
Published: Jun 17 2006
Pages: 350
Weight: 0.92
Height: 1.08 Width: 5.62 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
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 history of Western thought which stretches from Epicurus through Spinoza and Machiavelli to Marx, Derrida and Heidegger.

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