| Literature type | Articles |
| Author | Barker, Jason |
| Title | Missed encounter |
| Subtitle | althusser-mao-spinoza |
| Title of magazine / anthology | Angelaki : Journal of the Theoretical Humanities |
| Counting | 20, 4 |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 71-89 |
| Mention of Spinoza | passim |
| Language | English |
| Thematic areas | Reception history, Materialism / Marxism |
| Subject (individuals) | Althusser, Louis ; Mao Tse-tung |
| Autopsy | no |
| Complete bibliographic evaluation | no |
| German commentary | "This paper considers the trajectory of Althusser's Spinozism pre- and post-May '68. Where Althusser's application of Spinoza would lead him into unknown or non-Marxist territory, one alternative way to think this relation is through the figure of Mao, whose concept of non-antagnistic contradiction I propose to read in terms of Spinoza's 'determinate negaton'. Although not going so far as to suggest that a certain combination of Mao and Spinoza would have enabled Althusser to 'complete' Marx, this paper precualtes on this ommision" (abstract). |
| English commentary | "This paper considers the trajectory of Althusser's Spinozism pre- and post-May '68. Where Althusser's application of Spinoza would lead him into unknown or non-Marxist territory, one alternative way to think this relation is through the figure of Mao, whose concept of non-antagnistic contradiction I propose to read in terms of Spinoza's 'determinate negaton'. Although not going so far as to suggest that a certain combination of Mao and Spinoza would have enabled Althusser to 'complete' Marx, this paper precualtes on this ommision" (abstract). |
| Link to this page | http://spinoza.hab.de/detail.php?id=18102&LANG=EN |
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