Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory
  Acknowledgments

 collapse sectionIntroductory 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 sectionChapter 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 sectionChapter 2  Modes of Production and Historical Development
 collapse section1. 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 section2. 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 section3. 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 sectionChapter 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 sectionChapter 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 sectionChapter 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 sectionChapter 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 sectionNotes
 •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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