Althusser dedicated the fourth lesson of his "course of philosophy for scientists" in autumn 1967 to the inaugural lecture held by Jacques Monod at the Collège de France on 3 November in the same year. Althusser defined the concepts of "living system" and of "emergence" that Monod uses in his interpretation of evolution as "materialist"; whereas he judged his conception of human history as the evolution of ideas in the "noosphere" as "idealistic". Against the latter, Althusser counterposed a reading of Marx's work centred on the notion of "structure" - very closed to that of "system" used within biology - and on the refusal of teleology and finalism.
Althusser and Monod: a "New Alliance"?
TURCHETTO, Maria
2009-01-01
Abstract
Althusser dedicated the fourth lesson of his "course of philosophy for scientists" in autumn 1967 to the inaugural lecture held by Jacques Monod at the Collège de France on 3 November in the same year. Althusser defined the concepts of "living system" and of "emergence" that Monod uses in his interpretation of evolution as "materialist"; whereas he judged his conception of human history as the evolution of ideas in the "noosphere" as "idealistic". Against the latter, Althusser counterposed a reading of Marx's work centred on the notion of "structure" - very closed to that of "system" used within biology - and on the refusal of teleology and finalism.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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