Elementos De Autocritica pdf

Louis Pierre Althusser (French: 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.Althusser was a long-time member and sometimes a strong critic of the French Communist Party (Parti communiste français, PCF). His arguments and theses were set against the threats that he saw attacking the theoretical foundations of Marxism. These included both the influence of empiricism on Marxist theory, and humanist and reformist socialist orientations which manifested as divisions in the European communist parties, as well as the problem of the cult of personality and of ideology. Althusser is commonly referred to as a structural Marxist, although his relationship to other schools of French structuralism is not a simple affiliation and he was critical of many aspects of structuralism.Althusser's life was marked by periods of intense mental illness. In 1980, he killed his wife, the sociologist Hélène Rytmann, by strangling her. He was declared unfit to stand trial due to insanity and committed to a psychiatric hospital for three years. He did little further academic work, dying in 1990.

Elementos De Autocritica pdf by Louis Althusser

«Temos então o direito e o dever, como o fizeram todos os Clássicos, de falar de teoria marxista, e, no seio da teoria marxista, de uma ciência e de uma filosofia, sob reserva de não cair no teoricismo, na especulação ou no positivismo. E para ir directamente ao ponto mais sensível: sim, temos teoricamente o direito e politicamente o dever de retomar e de defender, a propósito do marxismo-leninismo, na trincheira da palavra, a categoria filosófica de “ciência”, e de falar da fundação por Marx de uma ciência revolucionária, encarregada absoluta de nos explicar as condições, a razão e o sentido desse binómio inaudito, que faz “mexer” algo de decisivo na nossa ideia da ciência.»
"Este pequeño volumen contiene dos ensayos iné- ditos. El primero data de junio de 1972. Hubiera debido aparecer en la Reponse á J. Lewis amplian- do de esta forma los elementos de autocrítica que
en ésta se configuran y que, como seguramente se recordará, se limitan a una rectificación de la defi- nición de filosofía. Pero tuve que renunciar a ins- cribirlo en ese texto para no exceder los límites de
un simple artículo de revista, por una parte, y para conservar la unidad del texto que publiqué en fran- cés, por otra."