Althusser and Spinoza by Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop HARDBACK 9781399539890

Althusser and SpinozaDetours and Returns\nAuthor(s): Juan Domingo Snchez Estop, Dan Taylor, lise Hendrick\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399539890, 978-1399539890\nSynopsis\nJuan Domingo Snchez Estop argues that Spinozas influence fundamentally shaped Althusser's philosophical project, providing key concepts and methods that Althusser used to radically rethink Marxism. The book traces five key 'detours and returns' between Althusser and Spinoza, showing how Spinozas anti-humanism, theory of reading, immanent causality, politics of the conjuncture, and rejection of determinism were mobilised at critical junctures in Althussers development. In the process, Estop uncovers a new 'Althusserian Spinoza', a thinker of practice and politics whose revolutionary potential remains to be explored.\n\nBringing together published works, correspondences, and unpublished writings, this groundbreaking study s.