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An Introduction to Philosophy for Non-Philosophers
2014
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En 1980, au sortir de la période la plus intensément politique de son œuvre et de sa vie, Louis Althusser décide de rédiger un manuel de philosophie qui serait enfin accessible à tous, sans préparation. Initiation à la philosophie pour les non-philosophes en est le résultat. Mais bien loin d’être un simple ouvrage de vulgarisation ou d’introduction, c’est en réalité un véritable précipité des thèses les plus fondamentales de sa propre pensée qu’offre Althusser. Entre cent autres considérations, e part ailleurs ne va-t-il aussi loin dans la distinction entre la philosophie et les autres pratiques ; e part non plus ne développe-t-il avec tant de détails le concept de « pratique » lui-même. Pourtant, parmi les nombreux apports cruciaux d’Althusser au « moment philosophique des années 1960 », ce concept est peut-être celui qui a bénéficié du plus grand succès et été à la source du plus grand nombre de malentendus. Moment de synthèse dans l’œuvre d’Althusser, instantané d’une des plus influentes philosophies de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, cette Initiation est donc aussi un manifeste pour la pensée à venir – une pensée dont le succès contemporains des enfants d’Althusser (de Rancière à Badiou, de Zizek à Balibar) manifeste assez la contemporanéité et l’urgence. Texte établi par G. M. Goshgarian, et introduit par Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc.

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Louis Althusser
Louis Althusser
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Louis Pierre Althusser (1918–1990) was one of the most influential Marxist philosophers of the 20th Century. As they seemed to offer a renewal of Marxist thought as well as to render Marxism philosophically respectable, the claims he advanced in the 1960s about Marxist philosophy were discussed and debated worldwide. Due to apparent reversals in his theoretical positions, to the ill-fated facts of his life, and to the historical fortunes of Marxism in the late twentieth century, this intense interest in Althusser's reading of Marx did not survive the 1970s. Despite the comparative indifference shown to his work as a whole after these events, the theory of ideology Althusser developed within it has been broadly deployed in the social sciences and humanities and has provided a foundation for much “post-Marxist” philosophy. In addition, aspects of Althusser's project have served as inspiration for Analytic Marxism as well as for Critical Realism. Though this influence is not always explicit, Althusser's work and that of his students continues to inform the research programs of literary studies, political philosophy, history, economics, and sociology. In addition, his autobiography has been subject to much critical attention over the last decade. At present, Althusser's philosophy as a whole is undergoing a critical reevaluation by scholars who have benefited from the anthologization of hard-to-find and previously unpublished texts and who have begun to engage with the great mass of writings that remain in his archives.
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