| Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory |
| Acknowledgments |
| Introductory Conclusion |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Notes |
| Bibliography |
| Index |