Althusser's lesson
"Jacques Rancière's first major work, Althusser's Lesson appeared in 1974, just as the energies of May 68 were losing ground to the calls for a return to order. Rancière's analysis of Althusserian Marxism unfolds against this background: what is the relationship between the return to order and the enthusiasm which greeted the publication of Althusser's Reply to John Lewis in 1973? How to explain the rehabilitation of a philosophy that had been declared 'dead and buried on the barricades of May …
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- Full title :Althusser's lesson / Jacques Rancière ; translated by Emiliano Battista.
Summary
"Jacques Rancière's first major work, Althusser's Lesson appeared in 1974, just as the energies of May 68 were losing ground to the calls for a return to order. Rancière's analysis of Althusserian Marxism unfolds against this background: what is the relationship between the return to order and the enthusiasm which greeted the publication of Althusser's Reply to John Lewis in 1973? How to explain the rehabilitation of a philosophy that had been declared 'dead and buried on the barricades of May 68'? What had changed? The answer to this question takes the form of a genealogy of Althusserianism that is, simultaneously, an account of the emergence of militant student movements in the '60s, of the arrival of Maoism in France, and of how May 68 rearranged all the pieces anew. Encompassing the book's distinctive combination of theoretical analysis and historical description is a question that has guided Rancière's thought ever since: how do theories of subversion become the rationale for order?"--Abstract.
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- Publication Date:2017.
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Publishing
- Place of Publication:London. England
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 154 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781350009127, 1350009121, 9781441137791, 1441137793, 9781441114020, 1441114025
- DOI:10.5040/9781350009127
- oclc:on1295846136
- LC Classification:B2430.R273
- Dewey Decimal:194
Table of Contents
A lesson in orthodoxy : M.L. teaches John Lewis that it is the masses which make history -- A lesson in politics : philosophers do not become kings -- A lesson in self-criticism : class struggle rages in theory -- A lesson in history : the damages of humanism -- A discourse in its place -- Appendix. For the record : on the theory of ideology.
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