Althusser never fully broke with Marxism’s Hegelian teleology

Evidence

Many of the classic themes of the Althusserian intervention are resumed in and through his various uses of this term: for example, his argument that Marx’s “unity” is not the essentialist “expressive unity” to be found in Hegel, and that, therefore, Marx’s dialectic is not merely an inversion, but a theoretical advance over Hegel. … Marx’s “complex unity,” Althusser argues, is neither that in which everything perfectly expresses or corresponds to everything else; nor that in which everything is reducible to an expression of “the Economic.” It operates, instead, on the terrain of articulation. … Such conjunctures are not so much “determined” as overdetermined, i.e., they are the product of an articulation of contradictions, not directly reduced to one another. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 617 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

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Related

• Althusser rejected the Hegelian ‘expressive totality’ conception of society (similarity 0.89)
• Hall rejected the Frankfurt School because of its Hegelian heritage (similarity 0.89)
• Philosophy of praxis transforms Hegelian immanentism into absolute historicism and humanism (similarity 0.80)
• Later Marx abandoned thinking society as one simple expressive totality. (similarity 0.79)
• Hall rejects the teleological determination latent in orthodox Marxism (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Althusser rejected the Hegelian ‘expressive totality’ conception of society #qualifies (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 617