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The Problematic Althusser

In: Dialectics and Deconstruction in Political Economy

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  • Robert Albritton

    (York University)

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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.

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  • Robert Albritton, 1999. "The Problematic Althusser," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Dialectics and Deconstruction in Political Economy, chapter 5, pages 121-149, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-21448-4_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230214484_5
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