Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory

    Acknowledgments

  collapse section Introductory Conclusion
  The Vicissitudes of Structural Marxism
  Emperors Without Clothes:  Contemporary Fashions in Social Theory
  Marxism and the Collapse of Capitalism with a Human Face
  Marxism and the Collapse of Socialism with an Inhuman Face
  On the Concept of Modernism
  Structural Marxism as a Modernist Science of History
  Democracy and Socialism: A Final Anticipatory Note
  collapse section Chapter 1  Structural Causality, Contradiction, and Social Formations
  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
  collapse section Chapter 2  Modes of Production and Historical Development
  collapse section 1. The Concept of a Mode of Production
  Etienne Balibar: The Forces and Relations of Production
  Reproduction and the Problem of Periodization
  Hindess and Hirst and the "Post-Althusserian" Negation of History
  Balibar and Wolpe: Articulation as a Concept of Transformation
  collapse section 2. The Concept of a Lineage Mode of Production
  Terray: The Primacy of the Labor Process
  Rey: The Primacy of Class Struggle
  Meillassoux: Toward an Extended Concept of Lineage Modes of Production
  Imperialism as an Articulation of Capitalist and Lineage Modes of Production
  collapse section 3. Feudalism and the Transition to Capitalism
  Rey: The "Class Alliance" Between Seigneurs and Capitalists
  Bois: The Structure of European Feudalism
  Kriedte: Capitalism and the Dissolution of Feudalism
  Anderson: The Absolutist State and the Feudal Mode of Production
  Summing Up
  collapse section Chapter 3  Science, Ideology, and Philosophy
  The "Althusser Problem":  Theoreticism and Its Consequences
  Althusser: The Concept of Ideology and the Ideology of Concepts
  Marx's "Epistemological Break"
  Beyond Hermeneutics: A "Symptomatic" Reading of Capital
  The Historical Epistemology of Bachelard and Canguilhem
  Beyond Historicism: The Relative Autonomy of Scientific Practice
  Beyond Rationalism: Philosophy as Class Struggle in Theory
  Beyond Empiricism: Knowledge as a Practice Without a Subject
  Marxism and the "Crisis of Marxism"
  collapse section Chapter 4  Ideology and Social Subjectivity
  Althusser: The Interpellation of Social Subjects
  Ideological Apparatuses and State Power
  Bourdieu: Ideology, Habitus, and Symbolic Capital
  Therborn: The Contradictions of Ideological Interpellation
  Althusser: The "End of Ideology" Ideology
  Deleuze and the New Philosophy: Postmodernism and the New Right
  Foucault: Archaeology Versus History
  From Archaeology to Genealogy
  On the Subject of Power
  Poulantzas: Power, Class Struggle, and the State
  collapse section Chapter 5  Literature and Ideology
  Pêcheux: The Concept of Discursive Practice
  Macherey and Eagleton: Literary Discourse as Ideological Practice
  Macherey: Scientific Criticism and the Question of the Text
  Representation and Figuration in Verne's Mysterious Island
  Eagleton: Aesthetics as Class Struggle in Culture
  Macherey: Scientific Criticism Versus a History of Aesthetics
  Renée Balibar: Class Domination and the Literary Effect
  Macherey and Etienne Balibar: Marxism Against Literature?
  collapse section Chapter 6  Class Struggle, Political Power, and the Capitalist State
  Wright: Modes of Determination Within Structural Causality
  Modes of Determination in Contemporary Capitalism
  Poulantzas: The Specificity of the Political Instance
  Social Class, Social Relations, and Class Struggle
  Pertinent Effects, Class Power, and the Predominance of Politics
  The Relative Autonomy of the Capitalist Class State
  Class Struggles Within the Democratic State
  The Political Deflection of Class Struggle
  Therborn: The Organizational Technology of the Capitalist State
  Poulantzas: The Internationalization of Monopoly Capitalism
  The Internalization of Internationalization
  Monopoly Capitalism and the Interventionist State
  The Crisis of Democracy and Authoritarian Statism

  collapse section Notes
  Introductory Conclusion
  Chapter 1 Structural Causality, Contradiction, and Social Formations
  Chapter 2 Modes of Production and Historical Development
  Chapter 3 Science, Ideology, and Philosophy
  Chapter 4 Ideology and Social Subjectivity
  Chapter 5 Literature and Ideology
  Chapter 6 Class Struggle, Political Power, and the Capitalist State
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