Between Marx and Spinoza: dialectics and epistemology in the "second" Althusser (1974-1976)
The present article aims to recover some of the positions taken by the French philosopher Louis Althusser during the 1970s regard...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) |
| Repository: | Revista Aurora (Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www2.marilia.unesp.br:article/12661 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/aurora/article/view/12661 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Althusser dialética epistemologia dialectics epistemology |
| Summary: | The present article aims to recover some of the positions taken by the French philosopher Louis Althusser during the 1970s regarding dialectics and epistemology, focusing on three writings: Essays in Self-criticism (1974), Amiens’ Thesis (1975) and On Marx and Freud (1976). We argue that Althusser ends up demarcating a sui generis position within the scope of the so-called western marxism, detaching himself from the main deadlocks raised in For Marx and Reading Capital, texts marked by a theoretical “deviation”, that is, rationalist-speculative, in which the author’s spinozism jeopardizes its materialist character. For that purpose, the theoretical-interpretative method is used, through the bibliographical analysis of the texts under discussion. |
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