Naslov
Es kömmt drauf an: Notes on Althusser’s Critique of the Subject

Autori
Pupovac, Ozren

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Encountering Althusser: Politics and Materialism in Contemporary Radical Thought

Urednik/ci
Diefenbach, Katja ; Farris, Sara R. ; Kirn, Gal ; Thomas, Peter

Izdavač
Bloomsbury Publishing

Grad
London : New York (NY)

Godina
2012

Raspon stranica
323-334

ISBN
9781441146366

Ključne riječi
Althusser, the subject, interpellation, politics, history, necessity, contingency

Sažetak
There are (at least) four theses on the problem of the subject in Althusser: 1) ideology interpellates individuals as subjects, 2) history is a process without a subject, 3) there is no subject of science, 4) the masses make history. Taken together, these theses constitute the complex dialectic of contingency and necessity through which Althusser seeks to approach the problem of politics. I will attempt to present the aporiae that Althusser gets caught up here as he tries to read revolutionary politics both as essentially opposed to subjectivity – for subjectivity, as the field of the 'ideological State apparatuses, 'constitutes the general field of domination – and as something in excess of the ‘subjectless’ procedures of science. It is only science which can think the objectivity of history beyond the mechanisms of ideological domination and mystification in which the masses are caught. But, at the same time, it only is the aleatory subjective inventions of the masses, arising from their singular experiences of the struggle, which allow us to pass from ''interpreting'' to ''changing'' the world.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija

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