Lessons on Rousseau (Lbe) LOUIS ALTHUSSER

Lessons on Rousseau (Lbe)

Althusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau`s Discourse on the Origins of Inequality at the Ecole normale superieure in Paris in 1972. They are fascinating for two reasons. First, they gave rise to a new generation of Rousseau scholars, attentive not just to Rousseau`s ideas, but also to those of his concepts that were buried beneath metaphors or fictional situations and characters. A new way of coming to terms with Rousseau`s theoretical rigour, beneath his apparent reveries and sentimental flights of fancy, was here put to work. Second, we are now discovering that the `late Althusser`s` theses about aleatory materialism and the need to break with the strict determinism of theories of history in order to devise a new philosophy `for Marx` were being worked out well before 1985 - in this reading of Rousseau dating from twelve years earlier, which introduces into Rousseau`s text the ideas of the void, the accident, the take, and the necessity of contingency.

• Autor: Louis Althusser
• Wydawnictwo: Verso Books
• Rok wydania: 2019
• Okładka: twarda
• Liczba stron: 160
• Wymiary: 14 x 21 x 1.5 cm
• Język: angielski
• ISBN: 9781784785567