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Althusser's Late Thinking About Materialism

Althusser's Late Thinking About Materialism Wal Suchting Althusser’s Late Thinking About Materialism and the book of events is always open halfway through. Wislawa Szymborska, ‘Love at First Sight’ 1 Introduction General periodisation of Althusser’s work Considered most broadly, Althusser ’s engagement with Marx and Marxism took place in two stages. The first began with his entry into the French Communist Party in 1948 and ended around the mid-1970s. It was marked by attempts at a critical appropriation of certain parts of Marx’s thought. The more-or-less purely theoretical – centrally philosophical – character of this work was, he wrote, both cause and result of his political isolation in the Party. ‘I wished to . . . to s t r ug g le a ga in s t t r iu m p ha n t S t al in is m a n d i t s disastrous effects on my party’s politics. I had no choice at the time: if I had intervened publicly in the politics of the Party, which refused to publish even Historical Materialism , volume 12:1 (3–70) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 In Szymborska 1995, p. 198. The theme of contingency http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historical Materialism Brill

Althusser's Late Thinking About Materialism

Historical Materialism , Volume 12 (1): 3 – Jan 1, 2004

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Brill
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© 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1465-4466
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1569-206X
DOI
10.1163/156920604773563989
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Abstract

Wal Suchting Althusser’s Late Thinking About Materialism and the book of events is always open halfway through. Wislawa Szymborska, ‘Love at First Sight’ 1 Introduction General periodisation of Althusser’s work Considered most broadly, Althusser ’s engagement with Marx and Marxism took place in two stages. The first began with his entry into the French Communist Party in 1948 and ended around the mid-1970s. It was marked by attempts at a critical appropriation of certain parts of Marx’s thought. The more-or-less purely theoretical – centrally philosophical – character of this work was, he wrote, both cause and result of his political isolation in the Party. ‘I wished to . . . to s t r ug g le a ga in s t t r iu m p ha n t S t al in is m a n d i t s disastrous effects on my party’s politics. I had no choice at the time: if I had intervened publicly in the politics of the Party, which refused to publish even Historical Materialism , volume 12:1 (3–70) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 In Szymborska 1995, p. 198. The theme of contingency

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