Althusserianism and Anthropology

Authors

  • Décio Azevedo Marques de Saes Doutor em Sociologia pela École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, França. Docente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Metodista de São Paulo-SP, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/ls.v18i33.25741

Keywords:

Anthropology, historical materialism, epistemological rupture, productive forces, societies of work.

Abstract

This paper analyses the connections between Althusserianism and anthropology. In the first part, it presents the Althusserian critique of philosophical anthropology, as well as the Althusserian thesis concerning the incompatibility between Marx’s early philosophy, which was impregnated with idealism, and the principles of historical materialism. In the second part, it argues that some elements of a materialistic and historical anthropology appear in some writings of the Althusserian current. In the third part, the paper argues for the importance of searching for an exact connection between materialistic historical anthropology, broadly defined, and the laws of historical materialism.

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Published

2014-12-31

How to Cite

Saes, D. A. M. de. (2014). Althusserianism and Anthropology. Lutas Sociais, 18(33), 63–73. https://doi.org/10.23925/ls.v18i33.25741

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 33 (2014): Louis Althusser, 50 years later

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