RE: AUT: Re: hegelian stuff

["Harry M. Cleaver" <hmcleave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian,
Have you read Yann Moulier-Boutang's biography of Althusser? Is there
anything in there that helps explain the shift you mention? Moulier has
access to all of Althusser's materials (letters, notebooks, books,
concerning every aspect of his life, therapy, etc.) He is his literary
executor and, I might add, a friend and translator of Toni Negri.
H.

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Adrian Wilding wrote:

> One addendum to Chris and Harrys cogent responses. The translation a
> couple of years ago of Althussers early writings, entitled The Spectre
> of Hegel, showed that ironically enough Althusser himself undergoes
> something like that epistemological break (the dumping of
> Hegelianism) that he had wrongly attributed to Marx. In Capital & Class
> no. 67 I traced the break to the final part of Althussers doctoral
> thesis where he talks about the disintegration of Hegelianism which
> hasthrust us back into transcendentalism and thus validated
> structuralism avant la lettre. Contrast this poor conclusion with the
> first part of that same doctorial thesis which is wonderful
> left-Hegelian stuff, arguing that the Hegel of the Philosophy of Right
> is a conservative aberration whereas Hegels true politics lies in the
> revolutionary anti-statism of the Phenomenology. There, surprisingly,
> Althusser also argues against just those caricatures of Hegel (as
> pan-logist, absolute idealist, historical determinist, dialectical
> reductionist) which he will himself propound in his later  more
> familiar  work, For Marx, Reading Capital, etc. It is a bizarre shift,
> and one that mystifies me, but an interesting caveat to this discussion.
>
> Adrian
>
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