Der aleatorische materialismus: Ein theoretisches projekt des späten L. Althusser

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In a time interval of four years, from 1982 to 1986, Louis Althusser wrote a number of short papers, which were all published posthumous. Short papers are typical for Althusser's work, much more than every other art of writings, but the main characteristic of his last papers lies neither in their form nor in the method - it lies rather in a radically new approach to the politics. During the sixties, Althusser holds a point of view according to which the dialectical materialism represents the philosophical core of the Marxism and the historical materialism corresponds to its science. In the eighties, he changes this theoretical approach in favour of a "philosophy of the encounter", which in his opinion reflects the non-teleological principle of materialism in far more exact way, than the dialectical materialism which becomes logocentric and idealistic. Dialectical materialism will be completely rejected, and a new term will step into its place: the aleatoric materialism, a materialism of contingency and emptiness that radically rejects any precedence of the sense over the phenomena. The following text pursues this radical late turn in Althusserian understanding of philosophy, primarily in its relation to politics and ideology.

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Larise, D. (2006). Der aleatorische materialismus: Ein theoretisches projekt des späten L. Althusser. Synthesis Philosophica.

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