The Problematic Althusser

Robert Albritton
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Robert Albritton: York University

Chapter 5 in Dialectics and Deconstruction in Political Economy, 1999, pp 121-149 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There has been a remarkable resurgence of interest in Althusser’s work in recent years with the publication of a spate of books and articles by and about him. Most of the writing about Althusser treats his work as interesting for its historical influence on the development of poststructuralism and other schools of thought. Others extract certain concepts from the corpus of his work, for example ‘overdetermination’, and use them as a basis for postmodern Marxism.1 Lehmann (1993) and Resch (1992) go the furthest in resurrecting Althusserian social science in opposition to poststructuralism, with Lehmann advocating a ‘critical structuralism’ and Resch a Bhaskarian critical realist interpretation. I intend neither to praise nor to bury Althusser. Instead I intend to engage with some of his perspectives in order to move beyond them without falling into the modish antiscience stance of postmodernism.

Keywords: Political Economy; Historical Analysis; Capitalist Society; Logical Time; Concrete Level (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230214484_5

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