Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface Immanent Influence: The Power of Spinoza in Althusser viii
4. Acknowledgements xiv
5. Spinoza Citation Style and Abbreviations xvi
6. Abbreviations of Althusser’s Works xviii
7. Introduction: Philosophy as Detour 1
8. Chapter I Althusser the Anti-humanist, or the Break
9. 1 The problem of a ‘Marx’ philosophy 14
10. 2 On Stalin’s side 21
11. 3 The anti-humanist theses 27
12. 4 Althusser between determinism and freedom 40
13. Chapter II Althusser the Reader
14. 1 The detour through Spinoza 45
15. 2 The Theologico-Political Treatise: a politics of discourse 51
16. 3 Reading Capital with Spinoza 65
17. Chapter III Althusser the Structuralist?
18. 1 From ‘structuralist Marxism’ to Spinozist immanentism: a philosophical journey 99
19. 2 Determinism and breaks 112
20. 3 Cut and symptom reading 145
21. 3 Cut and symptom reading
22. 1 Thinking about the conjuncture 154
23. 2 A detour via Machiavelli 163
24. 3 Spinoza Machiavellianus 181
25. 4 Interpellation and constitution of the subject 189
26. 5 Is it easy to be a Spinozist in philosophy? 197
27. Chapter V Althusser and the Aleatory
28. 1 Between necessity and the aleatory 205
29. 2 The crisis of Marxism 209
30. 3 The ‘manifestos’ of aleatory materialism 215
31. 4 What does aleatory materialism oppose? 228
32. 5 Spinoza in ‘The Only Materialist Tradition’ 247
33. 6 A situation without politics 258
34. Conclusion: Reason beyond the Principle of Reason 261
35. Bibliography 266
36. Index 277