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portada Lessons on Rousseau (Lbe)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
160
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781784785567

Lessons on Rousseau (Lbe)

Louis Althusser (Author) · Verso · Hardcover

Lessons on Rousseau (Lbe) - Louis Althusser

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Synopsis "Lessons on Rousseau (Lbe)"

Althusser dissects the leading Enlightenment philosopherAlthusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau's Discourse on the Origins of Inequality at the École normale supérieure 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.

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