Jacques Rancière's first major work, Althusser's Lesson appeared in
1974, just as the energies of May 68 were losing ground to the calls
for a return to order. Rancière's analysis of Althusserian Marxism
unfolds against this background: what is the relationship between the
return to order and the enthusiasm which greeted the publication of
Althusser's Reply to John Lewis in 1973? How to explain the
rehabilitation of a philosophy that had been declared 'dead and buried
on the barricades of May 68'? What had changed? The answer to this
question takes the form of a genealogy of Althusserianism that is,
simultaneously, an account of the emergence of militant student
movements in the '60s, of the arrival of Maoism in France, and of how
May 68 rearranged all the pieces anew. Encompassing the book's
distinctive combination of theoretical analysis and historical
description is a question that has guided Rancière's thought ever
since: how do theories of subversion become the rationale for order?
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ISBN
9781441114020
Publisert
2015
Utgave
1. utgave
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Vendor
Continuum
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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