Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-241) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: why read Althusser today? -- The theoretical conjuncture : structure, structurality, structuralism -- Towards a prehistory of structuralism : from Montesquieu to Dilthey -- Settling accounts with phenomenology : Husserl and his critics -- Lévi-Strauss: ancestors and descendants, causes and effects -- Between Spinozists: the function of structure in Althusser, Macherey and Deleuze -- Marxism and humanism -- Althusser and Lacan: towards a geneaology of the concept of interpellation -- Althusser and Foucault: apparatuses of subjection -- The late Althusser : materialism of the encounter or philosophy of nothingness?
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