Althusser's lesson

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Althusser's Lesson represents the foundations of Jacques Rancire's theoretical project. It marks the moment at which he emerges from the tutelage of his mentor, Louis Althusser, and begins to outline the themes he will go on to develop in his later writings. Here Rancire is already working out a non-economic and non-Marxist understanding of politics. The events of May 1968 confronted Althusser's version of a Marxism of order with one of subversion that in one fell swoop rendered Althusser's tho…

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Full title :Althusser's lesson / Jacques Rancière ; translated by Emiliano Battista.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Continuum International Pub. Group
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

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Description:1 online resource (160 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781441114020, 1441114025
oclc:ocn741492907
LC Classification:B2430.A474 R3613 2011
Dewey Decimal:194

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Foreword to the English Edition; Preface; 1. A Lesson in Orthodoxy: M-L Teaches John Lewis That It Is the Masses Which Make History; 2. A Lesson in Politics: Philosophers Did Not Become Kings; 3. A Lesson in Self-Criticism: Class Struggle Rages in Theory Appendix: On Class Struggle in Texts; 4. A Lesson in History: The Damages of Humanism; 5. A Discourse in Its Place; Appendix: On the Theory of Ideology: Althusser's Politics; Notes; Index.