Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory

    Acknowledgments

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  Althusser: The Social Formation as a Totality of Instances
  The Social Formation Articulated on the Basis of a Mode of Production
  The Materialist Rationalism of Spinoza
  The Critique of Transitive and Expressive Causalities
  Structural Causality and Darstellung
  Structure in Dominance and Determination in the Last Instance
  Hegel or Spinoza?
  Contradiction, Uneven Development, and Overdetermination
  Differential and Plenary Time
  History as a Process Without a Subject
  The Economism/Humanism Couplet
  History as a Process Without a Goal
  Marxism as a General Not a Total History
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  expand section Chapter 3  Science, Ideology, and Philosophy
  expand section Chapter 4  Ideology and Social Subjectivity
  expand section Chapter 5  Literature and Ideology
  expand section Chapter 6  Class Struggle, Political Power, and the Capitalist State

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    Bibliography
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