Lessons on Rousseau
«The discovery of these Lectures on Rousseau is one of the true miracles that occurred in the restitution of Althusser's posthumous legacy. They are beautifully transcribed and edited by Yves Vargas, an auditor to the lectures and himself a great Rousseau scholar. Not only do they add unexpected developments to the already celebrated Rousseau-interpretation by the Marxist philosopher, they fill a gap in the understanding of the sources of his late philosophy of "aleatory materialism". Their reading will be a pleasure and an inspiration.»
Etienne Balibar, co-author of Reading Capital
Althusser 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. Les mer
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- Forlag
- Verso Books
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 160
- ISBN
- 9781784785567
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 21 x 14 cm
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«The discovery of these Lectures on Rousseau is one of the true miracles that occurred in the restitution of Althusser's posthumous legacy. They are beautifully transcribed and edited by Yves Vargas, an auditor to the lectures and himself a great Rousseau scholar. Not only do they add unexpected developments to the already celebrated Rousseau-interpretation by the Marxist philosopher, they fill a gap in the understanding of the sources of his late philosophy of "aleatory materialism". Their reading will be a pleasure and an inspiration.»
Etienne Balibar, co-author of Reading Capital