Philosophy for Non-Philosophers
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Philosophy for Non-Philosophers

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Philosophy for Non-Philosophers

About this book

In 1980, at the end of the most intensely political period of his work and life, Louis Althusser penned Philosophy for Non-philosophers. Available here for the first time in English, Philosophy for Non-philosophers constitutes a rigorous and engaged attempt to address a wide reading public unfamiliar with Althusser's project. As such, the work is a concentration of the most fundamental theses of Althusser's own ideas, and presents a synthesis of his sprawling and disparate philosophical and political writings. Nowhere else does Althusser push the distinction between philosophy and other disciplines as far, or develop in such detail the concept of 'practice'. Rather than a work of 'popular philosophy', Philosophy for Non-philosophers is a continuation and conglomeration of Althusser's thought; a thought whose radicality is still perceptible in those that have followed since. Philosophy for Non-philosophers thus provides a vivid encapsulation of Althusser's seminal influence on the leading thinkers of today, including Ranciere, Badiou, Balibar, and Žižek.

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Yes, you can access Philosophy for Non-Philosophers by Louis Althusser, G. M. Goshgarian in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Critical Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781474299275
eBook ISBN
9781472592026
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction by Warren Montag
  8. Note on the Text by G. M. Goshgarian
  9. 1 What Non-Philosophers Say
  10. 2 Philosophy and Religion
  11. The Big Detour
  12. 3 Abstraction
  13. 4 Technical Abstraction and Scientific Abstraction
  14. 5 Philosophical Abstraction
  15. 6 The Myth of the State of Nature
  16. 7 What Is Practice?
  17. 8 The Practice of Production
  18. 9 Scientific Practice and Idealism
  19. 10 Scientific Practice and Materialism
  20. 11 Ideological Practice
  21. 12 The Ideological State Apparatuses
  22. 13 Political Practice
  23. 14 Psychoanalytic Practice
  24. 15 Artistic Practice
  25. 16 Philosophical Practice
  26. 17 Dominant Ideology and Philosophy
  27. 18 Philosophy as Theoretical Laboratory
  28. 19 Ideology and Philosophy
  29. 20 Philosophy and the Science of Class Struggle
  30. 21 A New Practice of Philosophy
  31. 22 The Dialectic: Laws or Theses?
  32. Notes
  33. Index
  34. Copyright