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
    Bibliography
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