id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_xr7p3p5mnzgiff6uf4i4c373cy Banu Bargu The Political Encounter with Louis Althusser: 2019 4 .pdf application/pdf 1580 227 45 To cite this article: Banu Bargu & Robyn Marasco (2019) The Political Encounter with Louis This special issue presents a collection of essays on the work of Louis Althusser. As Marx's writings once again move into the mainstream of political debate and discourse, the positions that Althusser stakes out in reading Marx to Althusser's thought and his celebrated concept of ideology, and while "democratic socialism" comes back into political vogue, the moment seems ripe for a reassessment of his works. For us, what remains so compelling about Althusser's philosophy is the specific relationship it establishes to politics. political insights in Althusser's work, especially in light of the contemporary these essays suggest the primacy of politics in the encounter with Althusser. Every encounter with Althusser is a political encounter. of his life or his times or even his Marxism but because we believe, with Althusser, Political Encounter with Althusser 241 ./cache/work_xr7p3p5mnzgiff6uf4i4c373cy.pdf ./txt/work_xr7p3p5mnzgiff6uf4i4c373cy.txt