Resch (1992): Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory

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Introductory Conclusion 1
The Vicissitudes of Structural Marxism
Emperors Without Clothes: Contemporary Fashions in Social Theory
Marxism and the Collapse of Capitalism with a Human Face
Marxism and the Collapse of Socialism with an Inhuman Face
On the Concept of Modernism
Structural Marxism as a Modernist Science of History
Democracy and Socialism: A Final Anticipatory Note

1. Structural Causality, Contradiction, and Social Formations 33
Althusser: The Social Formation as a Totality of Instances
The Social Formation Articulated on the Basis of a Mode of Production
The Materialist Rationalism of Spinoza
The Critique of Transitive and Expressive Causalities
Structural Causality and Darstellung
Structure in Dominance and Determination in the Last Instance
Hegel or Spinoza?
Contradiction, Uneven Development, and Overdetermination
Differential and Plenary Time
History as a Process Without a Subject
The Economism/Humanism Couplet
History as a Process Without a Goal
Marxism as a General Not a Total History

2. Modes of Production and Historical Development 83

1. The Concept of a Mode of Production
Etienne Balibar: The Forces and Relations of Production
Reproduction and the Problem of Periodization
Hindess and Hirst and the "Post-Althusserian" Negation of History
Balibar and Wolpe: Articulation as a Concept of Transformation

2. The Concept of a Lineage Mode of Production
Terray: The Primacy of the Labor Process
Rey: The Primacy of Class Struggle
Meillassoux: Toward an Extended Concept of Lineage Modes of Production
Imperialism as an Articulation of Capitalist and Lineage Modes of Production

3. Feudalism and the Transition to Capitalism
Rey: The "Class Alliance" Between Seigneurs and Capitalists
Bois: The Structure of European Feudalism
Kriedte: Capitalism and the Dissolution of Feudalism
Anderson: The Absolutist State and the Feudal Mode of Production
Summing Up

3. Science, Ideology, and Philosophy 158
The "Althusser Problem": Theoreticism and Its Consequences
Althusser: The Concept of Ideology and the Ideology of Concepts
Marx's "Epistemological Break"
Beyond Hermeneutics: A "Symptomatic" Reading of Capital
The Historical Epistemology of Bachelard and Canguilhem
Beyond Historicism: The Relative Autonomy of Scientific Practice
Beyond Rationalism: Philosophy as Class Struggle in Theory
Beyond Empiricism: Knowledge as a Practice Without a Subject
Marxism and the "Crisis of Marxism"

4. Ideology and Social Subjectivity 205
Althusser: The Interpellation of Social Subjects
Ideological Apparatuses and State Power
Bourdieu: Ideology, Habitus, and Symbolic Capital
Therborn: The Contradictions of Ideological Interpellation
Althusser: The "End of Ideology" Ideology
Deleuze and the New Philosophy: Postmodernism and the New Right
Foucault: Archaeology Versus History
From Archaeology to Genealogy
On the Subject of Power
Poulantzas: Power, Class Struggle, and the State

5. Literature and Ideology 260
Pêcheux: The Concept of Discursive Practice
Macherey and Eagleton: Literary Discourse as Ideological Practice
Macherey: Scientific Criticism and the Question of the Text
Representation and Figuration in Verne's Mysterious Island
Eagleton: Aesthetics as Class Struggle in Culture
Macherey: Scientific Criticism Versus a History of Aesthetics
Renée Balibar: Class Domination and the Literary Effect
Macherey and Etienne Balibar: Marxism Against Literature?

6. Class Struggle, Political Power, and the Capitalist State 308
Wright: Modes of Determination Within Structural Causality
Modes of Determination in Contemporary Capitalism
Poulantzas: The Specificity of the Political Instance
Social Class, Social Relations, and Class Struggle
Pertinent Effects, Class Power, and the Predominance of Politics
The Relative Autonomy of the Capitalist Class State
Class Struggles Within the Democratic State
The Political Deflection of Class Struggle
Therborn: The Organizational Technology of the Capitalist State
Poulantzas: The Internationalization of Monopoly Capitalism
The Internalization of Internationalization
Monopoly Capitalism and the Interventionist State
The Crisis of Democracy and Authoritarian Statism