For Theory
Althusser and the Politics of Time
Seiten
2023
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-4766-5 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-4766-5 (ISBN)
For Theory aims to open a discussion on the weakening of the production of theory in left-wing thought since the 1970s, based on Louis Althusser's ideas of overdetermination, plural temporality, conjuncture, and theoretical practice.
For Theory is an invitation to review the impact of neoliberalization on critical thinking and a call to recover the momentum of theoretical production capable of sustaining better analyses of the conjuncture for an emancipatory strategy. Relying on the tradition of Althusserian studies, the book discusses the political, technocratic, neo-anarchist and reformist drifts of Latin American leftist thought and thus raises the need to advance in a materialistic and pluralistic conceptualization of historical time and to develop the category of overdetermination. It does so by focusing on the theory of reproduction and in a complex consideration of the concept of class struggle, in order to dispute the future with the dominant ideology that imposes a regime of presentist temporality, discouraging any emancipatory imagination of the future.
For Theory is an invitation to review the impact of neoliberalization on critical thinking and a call to recover the momentum of theoretical production capable of sustaining better analyses of the conjuncture for an emancipatory strategy. Relying on the tradition of Althusserian studies, the book discusses the political, technocratic, neo-anarchist and reformist drifts of Latin American leftist thought and thus raises the need to advance in a materialistic and pluralistic conceptualization of historical time and to develop the category of overdetermination. It does so by focusing on the theory of reproduction and in a complex consideration of the concept of class struggle, in order to dispute the future with the dominant ideology that imposes a regime of presentist temporality, discouraging any emancipatory imagination of the future.
Natalia Romé is professor and researcher at the Gino Germani Research Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, where she coordinates the Program of Critical Studies in Ideology, Technics and Politics.
Foreword by Warren Montag
Introduction. Facing theoretical defeat
PART I
Chapter I. Against Reformism and Politicism. Towards a Materialism of the Imaginary
Chapter II. Against Denouncing of Alienation. Towards a De-Centred theory of History and Politics
Chapter III. Against Neo-anarchism (the flipside of technocratism). Feminism in its Conjuncture
PART II
Chapter IV. No Theoretical Thinking Without Political Thought.
Chapter V. Political Desire of the True
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.01.2023 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Warren Montag |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 318 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5381-4766-1 / 1538147661 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-4766-5 / 9781538147665 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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