[PEN-L:8831] Re: Re: Althusser

[Michael Yates <mikey+@xxxxxxxx>]

Friends,

I remember reading Althusser's autobiography.  Things were proceeding
smoothly and then after 150 pages or so the prose just became
impenetrable to me.

Every time I hear of Althusser, I have a hard time getting past the fact
that he murdered his wife. What do list members think of this?  It's
just like William Burroughs.  I like some of his writings, but what kind
of a person just abandons his son, after shooting his wife playing his
William Tell game but using a gun he knew fired low.  Sometimes I wonder
if it is so hard to be smart and a fine artist but be at least a decent
person at the same time.

michael yates

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> Hi Doug:
> >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> >>three cheers for Althusser
> >
> >What do you like about Althusser?
>
> Althusser paid attention to the parts of Marx that I like. I'm sympathetic
> to his anti-Hegelian, anti-Humanist polemical note. I don't like his essay
> on the ISA, however.
>
> Yoshie