Louis Althusser

This introductory guide to Louis Althusser provides the first major overview of his work since the publication in French of thousands of pages of essays, books, and letters unknown before 1990. Focusing on Althusser's writing on art, theater, and literature, Warren Montag traces the contradictory development of Althusser's thought from the early 60s to his autobiography, The Future Lasts Forever . Montag also explores how Althusser's reflections on reading can shed new light on well-known texts such as Heart of Darkness and Robinson Crusoe .

Warren Montag is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Occidental College, Los Angeles.

General Editor's Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

1

(15)

Towards a New Reading of Althusser

16

(56)

First encounters: art against ideology

16

(21)

Towards a theory of the materiality of art

37

(12)

Macherey's intervention

49

(12)

Rethinking the concept of ideology

61

(11)

Some Concepts

72

(14)

The concept of history from Hegel to structuralism

72

(2)

Humanism

74

(3)

Ideology

77

(3)

Creation/production

80

(2)

Symptomatic reading

82

(2)

Philosophy as intervention

84

(2)

Readings

86

(46)

Wild crowds, savage movements: Heart of Darkness and the rise of International Socialism

86

(16)

Robinson Crusoe and the drama of interpellation

102

(15)

The Future Lasts Forever: Althusser after Althusser

117

(15)

Conclusion

132

(4)

Appendix: Louis Althusser ``On Brecht and Marx''

136

(14)

A political theater

137

(3)

Smothering the voice of politics

140

(2)

The party position

142

(2)

The end of identification

144

(2)

Theater and the risk of fire

146

(4)

Annotated Bibliography

150

(15)

References

165

(5)

Index

170

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