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, something evident in the interplay between the notions of ethico-political history, coming from the work of Croce, of hegemony and of philosophy of praxis. One can say that not only the philosophy of praxis ... intellectuals (Q11, §12; SPN: 325). This relation between philosophy and “common sense”, theoretical abstraction and mass ideological practices is itself a part of the political process. “The relation between
of preparation the new edition of some of Louis Althusser’s major works in Greek. Moreover, this project also has to do with broader theoretical and political debates in the Greek Left and the
transitions between social forms. Machiavelli’s primary insight on their accounts is his rejection of a theoretical method that involves passive observation of its object in favour of a political philosophy ... fosters an understanding of how work on Machiavelli has contributed, and can continue to contribute, to Marxist political philosophy as a whole. The argument is organized as follows. Section 1 examines how
maintain that the importance of the philosophy of the encounter is due somewhat to the fact that, with this philosophy, Althusser rejected the scientistic aspect of his political philosophy and, instead ... contemporary usages) will be specified before showing how and in what way Althusser’s political philosophy between 1960 and 1980 can be described as “scientistic.” The next section will detail the important
error, Althusser now emphasises that philosophy is political. More accurately, philosophy stands between the sciences and practical politics, functioning both as theoretical intervention in politics and ... the task of rethinking the relationship between Marx and political philosophy. It may at least be hypothesised that one decisive difference between Marx’s theories and those of mainstream political
unrecognizable today” (175). Also evident, however, is that we have no other option but to continue using the concepts that we have inherited from classical and modern political philosophy to describe our present ... . Or, rather, war, as well as all concepts of political philosophy, can only be used “under erasure,” that is, knowing that meaning is ultimately spectral and differed. But Galli himself presents global
Twentieth Century French philosophy, sceptical of grand narratives and emancipatory political projects as such. In a retrospective introduction to his book on the Algerian war of independence, Lyotard claims ... ) philosophy was confined to and bounded by the assumptive logic of a philosophy of man. The ethical, aesthetic, economic and political convictions—and their concomitant projects—that flowed from a philosophy of
constituted scientific objects, but one or more objects, that is, questions, for philosophy: and Canguilhem cited as an example the question of the political uses of neurophysiology. The context of this new ... Philosophy of Georges Canguilhem," Décalages: Vol. 2: Iss. 2. Available at: https://scholar.oxy.edu/decalages/vol2/iss2/3 - Article 3 Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.oxy.edu/decalages
; oxy; edu/decalages - Modes Cover Page Footnote Thi s paper was presented at the 2016 DePaul University Graduate Philosophy Colloquium. Thi s article is available in Décalages: https://scholar.oxy.edu ... political critique, developing a rigorous rationalism that cuts against the grain of abstract individualism, onto-theological humanism, positivist scientism, and capitalist ideology.1 And just as Spinoza’s
global economic, political, and ideological system, with Marxism, which is just a theory?” My answer to this objection is that Marxism isn’t only a theory. We have to take the word “Marxism” in the strong ... “Marxism”: Marxism, in the phrase “crisis of Marxism,” designates the whole set of economic, political, ideological, and theoretical1 forms of existence bearing a relation to Marxism or brought into relation
the structure of liberal democracy. (Rancière concludes from this linking of political theory and the dominant order that “there is no such thing as political philosophy.” By that he means the ... unceasing effort of political philosophy to rid itself of the scandal of “politics,” the impossibility of incorporating its disagreement paradigm of thought and perception into the existing “police” order
every philosophy: the relation that philosophy establishes with politics. But he did not truly see, specify and think the other: the relation philosophy establishes with the sciences. Theoretically ... among others, and its function in this practice (for example, Marxist theory is one of the elements of Marxist political practice and serves as the “tool” of “method” and as a “guide” for “action”). This
oppositional charter within a party in the post-war period of Western Communism”1. In the process, Althusser identified two major theoretical gaps in Marxism: the theorization of political organization (party ... Althusser associated it with an idealist aspect of Marx himself. The contradictions in Marxism, for Althusser, lay not merely in the political or practical errors of Marxist movements, but were rooted in
, illustrating praxis with a now-classic example, “the doctor heals himself.” Among all these practices, two will be decisive with regard to philosophy: scientific practice and political practice. These are two ... practices that would be opposed, according to the dominant current of philosophy: the neutrality of science seems incompatible with political engagement. Plato himself had to explain in the Seventh Letter how
: a philosophical intervention in politics as much as political intervention in philosophy. It is not only a matter of confronting On the Reprodution with Initiation à la philosophie, but also with ... – struggling for a revolutionary reorientation of the French Communist Party at the moment of the political collapse of the European Communist movement – or an “ivory tower” intellectual, burying real struggles
, because from this point on it is possible and necessary to be one. But it is not for me. I know little and have no more time to learn anything. I am a political agitator in philosophy. ere must be such ... Althusser in the 1962 course was the relation between anthropology and politics in Machiavelli within the broader context of modern political philosophy. On the one hand, speaking neither of man nor of human
communistes at the École normale supérieure (Circle of Communist Students, known colloquially as the Cercle d’Ulm), mainly consisting of the young philosophy students of Louis Althusser. By 1966, it became the ... “theoretical and political organ” of the Union des jeunesses communistes (marxistes-léninistes) (Union of (Marxist-Leninist) Youth, hereafter UJC(ml)). The journal dissolved along with the latter organization
political effects of the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU and the Soviet invasion of Hungary, represented a specific theoretical-political context that undoubtedly provided, for Negri as for Althusser, the ... of Marx” into the more general problem of the “crisis of Marxism.” During this historical-political and theoretical period from the 1960s to the 1970s, the perception of the theoreticalopposition
-shoots methodological problems, internal Subject, structure and the materialist position in philosophy: Marx, Spinoza, Lacan. Theoreticism? Articulation and difference between theoretical and political ... that has endured, and that continues to produce theoretical and political effects. In fact, its modes of investigation, its questions, and even its aporias and discrepancies now seem more compelling
against the Master’s existing order, in the 11This position is developed in particular by the adherents of the “New Philosophy,” who have put back into fashion the theme of the Master, through a political ... reject in practice the consequences of Freudian materialism. It is no exaggeration to say that all the political-ideological stakes implied by the question of ideology and of the ideological class
