Althusser and the Absolute Beginning

This paper contributes to the debate on the Althusserian concept of void, as presented in The Underground Current of the Materialism of the Encounter. Based on both the textual criticism of Althusser’s later writings and the specialized literature, we resume Hegel’s proposal regarding the dialectics...

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Autor: Steimberg, Rodrigo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/63017
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rmcpys/article/view/63017
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Althusser
Hegel
vacío
encuentro
comienzo
void
encounter
beginning
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Sumario:This paper contributes to the debate on the Althusserian concept of void, as presented in The Underground Current of the Materialism of the Encounter. Based on both the textual criticism of Althusser’s later writings and the specialized literature, we resume Hegel’s proposal regarding the dialectics of the beginning, where philosophies dealing with the pure void as the condition for movement –and, thus, transformation– are criticized. In this sense, we conclude that Althusser’s objections to the Hegelian dialectic are already answered in Hegel’s philosophy, thus restoring its fertility to regard the transformation of social structures as the result of their internal contradictions.