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For Marx. Louis Althusser 1962

Part 2: On the Young Marx

1. political—theoretical—philosophical

1) Political

 : For Althusser, historicizing Marx means distinguishing

the radical history/ the history he was going to live the history he did live/ an immediate history the reflected history he gave us/ the ‘truth’ in Hegelian sense the principles of its scientific understanding REAL/IDEAL (immediate, truth)

 : The Yong Marx is taken up politically by the mature Marx (Capital). By whom?

2) Theoretical

   i) analytic: the system is reducible to its elements

   ii) teleological: the path is determined by the reader’s goal

   iii) ideological: auto-intelligibility of ideology

- critiquing the way Marx’s early work is read “from the viewpoint of developed Marxism” (18)

- dualistic view of materialism/idealism

3) Historical

- the events of his thought/real history (the subject of the thought)

- inversion theme: mere rotation of Hegelian dialectic (“setting back onto its feet” 36)

- Young Marx’s writings: “same structure, its problems and the meaning of these problems are still haunted by the same problematic” (36)

Q. Distinguish Feuerbachian materialism vs. Marxian materialism (dialectical)

*problematic(formulation of the problem):

“The examination of the status of this declaration called for a theory and a method – the Marxist theoretical concepts in which the reality of theoretical formations in general (philosophical ideologies and science) can be considered must be applied to Marx himself. Without a theory of the history of theoretical formations it would be impossible to grasp and indicate the specific difference that distinguishes two different theoretical formations. I thought it possible to borrow for this purpose the concept of a ‘problematic’ from Jacques Martin to designate the particular unity of a theoretical formation and hence the location to be assigned to this specific difference and the concept of an ‘epistemological break’ from Gaston Bachelard to designate the mutation in the theoretical problematic contemporary with the foundation of a scientific discipline.” (xxxi)