...Miglena Nikolchina This essay addresses the mostly long-distance friendship between French philosopher Louis Althusser and Russian Georgian philosopher Merab Mamardashvili as a vantage point for exploring the question why, by the end of the 1960s, critical and projective thinking in the West...

...Ken C. Kawashima If the problem of ideology, as Louis Althusser argues, is about the hailing of interpellation, then ideology can be understood as a problem of the voice. In this essay, I address the politics of the voice by analyzing Emperor Hirohito's so-called surrender speech, which...

... Manuscripts. In drawing lines of methodological con- tinuity between these manuscripts and his mature works, I dissent from Louis Althusser’s thesis of a fundamental “epistemological break” between the early and late Marx. At the same time, because Althusser provides one of the most thoughtful...

... temporalization of history associated, in particular, with the idea of its materialist ‘‘inversionthose of Marx, Adorno, and Mario Tronti—focusing especially on Louis Althusser’s direct confrontation with the Hegelian side of Marxism contained in his demand to think history differ- entially and conjuncturally...

... the Althusserian and post-Althusserian­ traditions. Louis Althusser, Pierre Macherey, and others traveling in their wake have sought to deduce the “relative autonomy” of art vis ­vis science and ideology. This is less to reproduce that tenacious canard, namely that art, in its purposelessness, is able...

... translations of extracts. Ryan argues that it is essen- tial to grasp the longue durée of Marx’s critical-­translational method: under- stood properly, it displaces the break on which Louis Althusser insisted in Reading “Capital,” separating the reading methodologies of the 1844 Paris manuscripts from...

... the twentieth-century Marxist tradition, both Gramsci and Louis Althusser made strenuous attempts to challenge and elaborate on this original conception. Gramsci suggested that ideology was not distinct from structure or appear- ance. He noted that it is useful to make a distinction between ‘‘historically...

..., time and again but always singularly. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Marxism Althusser linguistic revolution Hikmet Kıvılcımlı Kemalism The Use-­Value of Idioms: The Language of Marxism and Language...

... of an economy of overt constraints—and thus, in its visibility, is vulnerable to the possibility of insurrection. It is docility, a com- portment toward the world, enabled by what Louis Althusser has called ‘‘the interpellation of the subject’’ and the related mechanisms of normalization, that assumes its...

... Lyotard, Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Foucault. In what fol- lows, I will overdetermine philosophy. But it should always be kept in mind that this inaugural postmodern philosophical initiative in thinking parallels...

... clear, where he lambastes Althusser and his ilk for their political debility, revisionism, and opportunism, all find their ultimate reason 12. See Alain Badiou, “Édification du parti et question syndicale,” Théorie et politique 3/4 (1975): 114–18; “Syndicalisme et révisionnisme moderne,” Théorie...

... a complex understanding of relations between the State and civil society, leading him (and subsequent students of his work [e.g., Louis Althusser]) to examine their interpenetrating roles in relation to coercion and consensus on the part of individuals and groups. In discussing the nature of consent...

... is defined in terms of hegemony (Antonio Gramsci) or as material practice (Louis Althusser), it is always understood as the materialization of ideas through the practices of individual subjects who are ideologically constituted within specific institutional contexts, for example, subjects who act...

... at or below the poverty line; who receives an edu- cation that helps propel or keep him or her in the materially advantaged classes; who is denied such an education; et cetera. The French Marxist Louis Althusser notes that while ideologies “con- stitute an illusion, we admit that they do make...

..., The Political Encounter with Louis Althusser, a special issue of Rethinking Marxism (2019). Paula Rabinowitz is professor emerita of English, University of Minnesota, and editor- in- chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Literature. She is the author of Ameri- 252 boundary 2 / February 2020 can Pulp: How...

... York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Mazzarella, William. Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity. Dur- ham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. Montag, Warren. Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. Myers, Ella. Worldly...

...” temporalities. In the concluding chapter of The Legacy of Edward W. Said, Spanos reads Mount Hermon preparatory school in Massachusetts as a part of what Louis Althusser calls ideological state apparatuses. He examines the school’s ideological practices in counterpoint to Said’s examination...

... Books Received Althusser, Louis. On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. Trans. G. M. Goshgarian. Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books, 2014. Amar, Paul, and Vijay Prashad. Dispatches from the Arab Spring: Understanding the New Middle East. Minneapolis...

...-­ gritting harmony that Louis Althusser so vividly described—and to act on these variations. Out of crisis and catastrophe, in the immanence of death, they seek out new possibilities. In their actions—beyond failure—new rhythms emerge, beating against the cadences that dominate the everyday...

... , 208 – 317 . Berkeley : University of California Press . Adorno Theodor , and Horkheimer Max . 1993 . Dialectic of Enlightenment , translated by Cumming John . New York : Continuum . Althusser Louis . 1982 . Montesquieu. Rousseau. Marx: Politics and History...