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Politics and Philosophy: Niccolò Machiavelli and Louis Althusser's Aleatory Materialism

Politics and Philosophy: Niccolò Machiavelli and Louis Althusser's Aleatory Materialism

Lahtinen, Mikko
Griffiths, Gareth
Kölhi, Kristina

Hardcover

Series: Historical Materialism Book, Book 23

PhilosophyGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 9004176500
ISBN13: 9789004176508
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jun 30 2009
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
Louis Althusser's interpretation of Niccolò Machiavelli has never really been studied in any detail as an analysis of political action and intervention. The same is also true for Althusser's notion of aleatory materialism. Instead, these have conventionally been studied from the viewpoint of a philosophical perspective in which politics is excluded. The objective of the present book thus runs against many of the prevailing views on Althusser. Here the emphasis is placed on Althusser's advancement of a theory of materialist politics. The main argument put forward is that, for Althusser, it was essential to reflect on how the conjunctural understanding of history and reality could offer a theoretical starting point for a subversive political strategy.

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