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Essays in Self-criticism (French: Eléments d'autocritique) is one of the chief works of the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, first published in 1974. [1] An English translation by Grahame Lock was published in 1976. [2]
- Louis Althusser
- 1974
The humanist line turns the workers away from the class struggle, prevents them from making use of the only power they possess: that of their organization as a class and their class organizations (the trade unions, the party), by which they wage their class struggle.
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Jun 7, 2019 · Essays in self-criticism. Reply to John Lewis: Note on "The critique of the personality cult". Remark on the category "Process without a subject or goal (s)"--Elements of self-criticism: On the evolution of the young Marx.--Is it simple to be a Marxist in philosophy? "Something new".
Slavoj Žižek’s relation to Louis Althusser is ambiguous.1 There is always something perplexing about Žižek’s reference qua critique to Althusser; tensions arise precisely in those points that, in Žižek’s view, mark the...
- Agon Hamza
- 2014
Louis Althusser. 3.91. 47 ratings3 reviews. Contains all Lous Althusser's work published to date (1976) in the 70's. Three texts translated by Grahame Locke. Genres PhilosophyNonfiction. 224 pages, Hardcover. First published January 1, 1974.
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Constructive self-criticism, by contrast, involves a more optimistic explanatory style, with a focus on specific and modifiable areas in need of improvement (e.g., “I stayed up too late watching TV when I could have been studying; next time I could set a TV limit for myself”).
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The year 1967 marks the beginning of a period of self-critical activity in which Althusser takes his distance from some, though not all, of the concepts and theses of his essays of the early and mid — sixties. In the course of these self-criticisms, new theoretical positions emerge.
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