Althusser and Contingency
Pippa, Stefano
The notion of contingency plays a central role in Althusser¿s attempt to recast Marxist philosophy and to free the Marxist conception of history from notions such as teleology, necessity and origin. Drawing on a wealth of published and unpublished material, Stefano Pippa discusses how Althusser¿s unfaltering commitment to contingency should encourage us to revisit our understanding of his conceptions of structural change, ideology, politics an...