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Politics and Philosophy
Niccolò Machiavelli and Louis Althusser's Aleatory Materialism
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English
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2009
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Louis Althusser’s interpretation of Niccolò Machiavelli has never really been studied in any detail as an analysis of political action and intervention. The same is also true for Althusser’s notion of aleatory materialism. Instead, these have conventionally been studied from the viewpoint of a philosophical perspective in which politics is excluded. The objective of the present book thus runs against many of the prevailing views on Althusser. Here the emphasis is placed on Althusser's advancement of a theory of materialist politics. The main argument put forward is that, for Althusser, it was essential to reflect on how the conjunctural understanding of history and reality could offer a theoretical starting point for a subversive political strategy.
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Mikko Lahtinen, Soc.Sc.D. (1997) in Political Science, University of Tampere (Finland), Ph.D. (2006) in History of Ideas, University of Oulu (Finland), is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Tampere. He has published widely on the history of political philosophy and on political theory.
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June 30, 2009
eBook ISBN:
9789047429944
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328
eBook ISBN:
9789047429944
Keywords for this book
Machiavelli; Althusser; Marxism; Renaissance; political; theorists; social; philosophers; political philosophy; Renaissance thought; Marxist theory
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in political philosophy, Renaissance thought and Machiavelli or the Marxist theory and radical thought, as well as philosophers and social scientists.
