Althusser's Lesson
by Jacques Rancière
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Althusser's Lesson represents the foundations of Jacques Rancire's theoretical project. It marks the moment at which he emerges from the tutelage of his mentor, Louis Althusser, and begins to outline the themes he will go on to develop in his later writings. Here Rancire is already working out a non-economic and non-Marxist understanding of politics. The events of May 1968 confronted Althusser's version of a Marxism of order with one of subversion that in one fell swoop rendered Althusser's show more thought outdated. Yet, when Althusser finally broke his silence on this issue, with the publication in 1 show lessTags
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Jacques Ranciere is one of the most influential philosophers writing today. He taught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement. Steven Corcoran is a writer and translator living in Berlin. He has edited and/or translated several works by Jacques show more Rancire, including Dissensus (2010, 2016), two works by Alain Badiou, Polemics (2006) and Conditions (2008) and Alienation and Freedom by Frantz Fanon (2017). show less
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- Original title
- La Lecon d'Althusser
- Original publication date
- 1974
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