Thinking with Balibar by Unknown

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Language: eng
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Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2020-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. See Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency trans. Ray Brassier (London: Continuum, 2008); François Laruelle, “The Generic as Predicate and Constant: Non-Philosophy and Materialism,” trans. Taylor Adkins, in The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism, ed. Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek, and Graham Harman (Melbourne: Re.Press, 2011), 237–60; and Ray Brassier, Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

2. See, for example, Catherine Malabou, “Le vide politique du réalisme contemporain, ou pourquoi je suis matérialiste” (lecture, Choses en Soi conference, Paris, November 19, 2016), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZyUVgV_u5A.

3. John Jamieson Carswell Smart, Encyclopedia Britannica, s.v. “materialism,” https://www.britannica.com/topic/materialism-philosophy.

4. Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, vol. 1, Language, trans. Ralph Manheim (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965), 73.

5. On this, see Étienne Balibar, The Philosophy of Marx, trans. Chris Turner (London: Verso, 1995); and Pierre Machery, Marx 1845: Les “Thèses” sur Feuerbach (Paris: Editions Amsterdam, 2008).

6. Louis Althusser, Écrits philosophiques et politiques (Paris: Le Livre de Poche), 1999, 313; my translation. The French reads: “accepter de partager leur langage et leur vérité comme vous partagez leur pain.”

7. V. I. Lenin, introduction to Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, trans. Abraham Fineberg, vol. 14 of Lenin: Collected Works (Moscow: Progress, 1972), https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/intro.htm. The original quotation is from Friedrich Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Works (Moscow: Progress, 1958), 2:369–70.

8. Althusser speaks of the “opacity of the immediate” as the core intuition of materialism, which he sees first represented in Spinoza (“From Capital to Marx’s Philosophy,” in Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Rancière, Reading Capital: The Complete Edition, trans. Ben Brewster and David Fernbach [London: Verso, 2015], 8).

9. One might recognize in the opposition between representation and expression formulations that are very close to those used by Deleuze throughout his entire work, starting with the very first published text he acknowledged (Gilles Deleuze, “Review of Jean Hyppolite’s Logique et Existence,” in Desert Islands and Other Texts 1953–1974, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Mike Taormina [Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2004]). Althusser will prefer the word “production” to the word “expression,” but the general move is the same.

10. See Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, chap. 2, §5, chap. 3, §1.

11. Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, chap. 3, §5.

12. Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, chap. 3, §1.

13. Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, Preface to the First Edition.

14. Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, chap. 6, §4.

15. For more about this, see my book on Saussure: Patrice Maniglier, La vie énigmatique des signes: Saussure et la naissance du structuralisme (Paris: Léo Scheer, 2006); for a summary in English, see my essay “Signs and Customs: Lévi-Strauss, Practical Philosopher,” Common Knowledge 22, no. 3 (September, 2016), 415–30.

16. I draw here freely from Althusser’s For Marx, trans. Ben Brewster (London: Verso, 2005); and from Althusser, Balibar, Establet, Macherey, and Rancière, Reading Capital.

17. Louis Althusser, Éléments d’autocritique (Paris: Hachette, 1974), 17; Louis Althusser, Essays in Self-Criticism, trans. Grahame Locke (London: Humanities Press, 1978).

18. For this last definition, see Louis Althusser, Réponse à John Lewis (Paris: Maspero, 1973); repr. in “Reply to John Lewis,” in Essays in Self-Criticism (London: Humanities Press, 1976), 35–77.

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