Encountering Althusser: Politics and Materialism in Contemporary Radical Thought (Hardcover)

Introduction / I. Aleatory Materialism and the Philosophy of the Encounter / 1. The Hazards of Aleatory Materialism in the Late Philosophy of Louis Althusser (Andre Tosel) / 2. Rethinking Aleatory Materialism (Panagiotis Sotiris) / 3. "An Immense Aspiration to Being:" The Causality and Temporality of the Aleatory (Giorgos Fourtounis) / 4. History as "Permanent Revocation of the Accomplished Fact:" Machiavelli in the Last Althusser (Vittorio Morfino) / 5. The Parallax Object of Althusser's Materialist Philosophy (Katja Kolsek) / 6. The Very Essence of the Object, the Soul of Marxism, and Other Singular Things: Spinoza in Althusser 1959-67 (G.M. Goshgarian) / II. Althusser's Non-Contemporaries 7. Althusser, Machiavelli and Us: Between Philosophy and Politics (Mikko Lahtinen) / 8. Conjuncture, Conflict, War: Machiavelli between Althusser and Foucault (1975-6) (Warren Montag) / 9. Althusser's Last Encounter: Gramsci (Peter D. Thomas) / 10. Althusser and Spinoza: Thinking the Enigma of Subjectivity without a Subject (Caroline Williams) / 11. Althusser with Deleuze: How to Think Spinoza's Immanent Cause? (Katja Diefenbach) / 12. Althusser and Tronti: The Autonomy of the Political versus the Primacy of Politics (Sara Farris) / III. Thinking Production and Reproduction / 13. Louis Althusser and the Concept of Economy (Ceren Ozselcuk) / 14. Althusser and the Critique of Political Economy (Michele Cangiani) / 15. The Problem of Reproduction: Probing the Lacunae of Althusser's Theoretical Investigations of Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Frieder Otto Wolf) / 16. To Think the New in the Absence of its Conditions: Althusser and Negri and the Philosophy of Primitive Accumulation (Jason Read) / IV. The Materiality of Ideology, the Primacy of Politics / 17. The Impossible Break: Ideology in movement between Philosophy and Politics (Isabelle Garo) / 18. The Theory of Ideology and the Theory of the Unconscious (Pascale Gillot) / 19. Ideological Interpellation: Identification and Subjectivation (Rastko Mocnik) ./ 20. "Es kommt drauf an:" Notes on Althusser's Critique of the Subject )Ozren Pupovac) / 21. Between the Tenth and Eleventh Theses on Feuerbach: Althusser's Return to New Materialism (Gal Kirn)