mercoledì 15 marzo 2017

André Tosel 1941-2017












ALTHUSSER E LA STORIA. DALLA TEORIA STRUTTURALE DELL’INTERO SOCIALE ALLA POLITICA DELLA CONGIUNTURA ALEATORIA E RITORNO
André Tosel

In ricordo di André Tosel rinviamo di nuovo al suo importante saggio su Althusser, pubblicato di recente su Materialismo Storico.
La rivista pubblicherà un saggio inedito del filosofo francese in uno dei prossimi numeri (SGA).

ABSTRACT


In the age of globalization, Althusser’s thought can be a compass that allows us to find points of reference in a situation where the sense of history appears as unthinkable (precisely because impossible). Althusser (about which we don’t need more to distinguish a first and a second phase) defined our age as a “without a center” one. An era that forces us to leave every idealistic residual in classical historical materialism, i.e. the idea of human essence, and a teleology of history and of its necessary course (determinism). On the contrary, moving from Althusser and its uninterrupted critical dialogue with Machiavelli and Gramsci, we need to conceive a “materialism of the encounter” that is also an “aleatory” one. A materialism whose central conceptual category, the idea of “conjuncture”, in force of its constitutive provisional nature, can help us to act in our world. A world marked by a continuous and unforeseeable becoming, that rejects any aprioristic analysis.

Keywords: Althusser; Globalization; Materialism of the encounter; Aleatory materialism; Conjuncture.

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