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Lessons on Rousseau
- Title
- Lessons on Rousseau / Louis Althusser ; edited with an introduction by Yves Vargas ; translated by G.M. Goshgarian.
- Author
- Althusser, Louis, 1918-1990
- Publication
- London : Verso, 2019.
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-3518 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 144 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Althusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau's Discourse on the Origins of Inequality at the École normale supérieure in Paris in 1972. They are fascinating for two reasons. First, they gave rise to a new generation of Rousseau scholars, attentive not just to Rousseau's ideas, but also to those of his concepts that were buried beneath metaphors or fictional situations and characters. Second, we are now discovering that the "late Althusser's" theses about aleatory materialism and the need to break with the strict determinism of theories of history in order to devise a new philosophy "for Marx" were being worked out well before 1985 in this reading of Rousseau dating from twelve years earlier, which introduces into Rousseau's text the ideas of the void, the accident, the take, and the necessity of contingency."--
- Uniform Title
- Cours sur Rousseau. English
- Alternative Title
- Cours sur Rousseau.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-3518
- ISBN
- 1784785571
- 9781784785574
- 9781784785567
- 1784785563
- OCLC
- 1035463199
- Author
- Althusser, Louis, 1918-1990, author.
- Title
- Lessons on Rousseau / Louis Althusser ; edited with an introduction by Yves Vargas ; translated by G.M. Goshgarian.
- Publisher
- London : Verso, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Translated from the French.
- Added Author
- Vargas, Yves, editor, writer of introduction.Goshgarian, G. M., translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-3518