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Philosophy for Non-Philosophers

Louis Althusser (Autor)

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224 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-9201-9 (ISBN)

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In 1980, at the end of the most intensely political period of his work and life, Louis Althusser penned Philosophy for Non-philosophers. Available here for the first time in English, Philosophy for Non-philosophers constitutes a rigorous and engaged attempt to address a wide reading public unfamiliar with Althusser’s project. As such, the work is a concentration of the most fundamental theses of Althusser’s own ideas, and presents a synthesis of his sprawling and disparate philosophical and political writings. Nowhere else does Althusser push the distinction between philosophy and other disciplines as far, or develop in such detail the concept of ‘practice’.

Rather than a work of ‘popular philosophy’, Philosophy for Non-philosophers is a continuation and conglomeration of Althusser’s thought; a thought whose radicality is still perceptible in those that have followed since. Philosophy for Non-philosophers thus provides a vivid encapsulation of Althusser’s seminal influence on the leading thinkers of today, including Ranciere, Badiou, Balibar, and Žižek.

Louis Althusser was a prominent French philosopher of the late twentieth century. His works include seminal writings on Marx, and the relation between post-war Marxist thought and other emerging discourses across the humanities (namely, structuralism). His works include, For Marx and Reading Capital. G. M. Goshgarian translates fiction and philosophy from French, German and Armenian into English. He is the editor and translator of several volumes of Althusser's work, including How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Acknowledgments
Introduction by Warren Montag
Note on the text by G.M. Goshgarian

Philosophy for Non-Philosophers
1. What Non-philosophers Say
2. Philosophy and Religion
The Big Detour
3. Abstraction
4. Technical Abstraction and Scientific Abstraction
5. Philosophical Abstraction
6. The Myth of the State of Nature
7. What is Practice?
8. The Practice of Production
9. Scientific Practice and Idealism
10. Scientific Practice and Materialism
11. Ideological Practice
12. The Ideological State Apparatuses
13. Political Practice
14. Psychoanalytic Practice
15. Artistic Practice

16. Philosophical Practice
17. Dominant Ideology and Philosophy
18. Philosophy as Theoretical Laboratory
19. Ideology and Philosophy
20. Philosophy and the Science of Class Struggle
21. A New Practice of Philosophy
22. The Dialectic: Laws or Theses?

Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.2.2017
Übersetzer	G. M. Goshgarian
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	354 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-4725-9201-8 / 1472592018
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-9201-9 / 9781472592019
Zustand	Neuware