Discourse and Decree: Spinoza, Althusser and Pêcheux
This essay examines the place of the concept of discourse in the genesis of Althusser’s theory of the Ideological State Apparatuses. A reading of his “Three Notes on the Theory of the Discourses” suggests that the near disappearance of the term “discourse” from the ISAs essay represents the suppress...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Jezik: | Anglais |
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Cahiers du GRM
2015
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| Online dostop: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Izvleček: | This essay examines the place of the concept of discourse in the genesis of Althusser’s theory of the Ideological State Apparatuses. A reading of his “Three Notes on the Theory of the Discourses” suggests that the near disappearance of the term “discourse” from the ISAs essay represents the suppression rather than the resolution of the contradictions that mark the notion of the interpellation of the subject. By reading Althusser in the light of Spinoza’s theory of the decree in the Ethics and of Pêcheux’s notion of discourse, we are able to grasp the materiality of language in all its senses, but also to reformulate the lexicon of consciousness and interiority in materialist terms. The conjunction of Spinoza, Althusser and Pêcheux allows us better to understand and transform through struggle what the latter called “the plague of subjection”. |
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