Machiavelli or the longest detour: Happening, Meeting and Materialism in the last Althusser’s philosophy

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  • Pablo Azevedo Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2011.89435

Keywords:

Althusser, Event, Encounter, Machiavelli, Materialism

Abstract

This paper intends to outline a reading of a theory of the event in the “last Althusser” based in two texts of capital importance in the group of his phostumous works: Machiavel et nous (1972-1986) e Le courant souterrain du matérialisme de la rencontre (1982). In the first text, Althusser analyses the thought of the Florentine secretary reflecting about a theory of praxis of the political transformation, while in the second essay, he seeks to undertake the task to build a genealogical stream of materialism where the primacy of the encounter replaces the teleology of dialetic materialism. Based in these writings, we would like to seek a compositive read of these two essays in order to perceive if we can read on the althusserian ontology of the encounter and in the interpretation of Machiavelli’s thought a theory of the event.

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Author Biography

  • Pablo Azevedo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
    Doutorando em Filosofia Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

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Published

2011-12-15

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No. 25 (2011): Número Especial

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How to Cite

Azevedo, P. (2011). Machiavelli or the longest detour: Happening, Meeting and Materialism in the last Althusser’s philosophy. Cadernos Espinosanos, 25, 145-166. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2011.89435