Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87

In the late 1970s and 1980s, Louis Althusser endured a period of intense mental instability during which he murdered his wife and was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Spanning this deeply troubling period, this fourth and final volume of political and philosophical writings reveals Althusser wrestling in a creative and unorthodox fashion with a whole series of theoretical problems to produce some of his very finest work. In his profound exploration of questions of determinism and contingency, Althusser developed a "philosophy of the encounter," which he links to a hidden and subterranean tradition in the history of Western thought which stretches from Epicurus through Spinoza and Machiavelli to Marx, Derrida and Heidegger.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Published: 06/17/2006
ISBN: 9781844675531
Pages: 350
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.62w x 1.08d

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 8