Abstract
This is an essay about two late-twentieth-century French philosophers, Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser, and Marxism. My thesis, simply stated, is that Foucault and Althusser pursued the same basic theoretical trajectory in relation to Marxism and that this trajectory is both rooted in and leads decisively away from Marx and Marxism. I argue that Althusser was stymied in this trajectory by this adherence to the French Communist Party, leaving Foucault to fulfil it.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | (Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy |
| Editors | Jernej Habjan, Jessica Whyte |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Palgrave |
| Pages | 83-98 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781137352835 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781137352828 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |