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    Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism.William S. Lewis - 2005 - Lexington Books.
    In a careful exposition of French Marxism, William Lewis places Althusser and his thought alongside the pre- and post-war French communist intellectual climate: the result is an excellent and unique work. Part theoretical treatise on some of Althusser's more complicated and less explored ideas, part intellectual history, Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism is, in total, an important text for philosophy, French and francophone studies, political thought, cultural studies, marxist thought, and several other disciplines interested in the intellectual (...)
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  2. Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism.William S. Lewis - 2007 - Science and Society 71 (4):490-493.
     
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    (1 other version)Concrete Critical Theory: Althusser’s Marxism.William S. Lewis - 2021 - Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
    Taking an analytic and historical approach, this work develops and defends Althusserian critical theory. This theory, it is argued, produces knowledge of how a particular class of people, in a particular time, in a particular place, is dominated, oppressed, or exploited. Moreover, without relying on a general notion of human emancipation, concrete critical theory can suggest political means for the alleviation of these conditions. Because it puts Althusser’s ideas in dialogue with contemporary social science and philosophy, the book as a (...)
  4. Althusser’s Scientism and Aleatory Materialism.William S. Lewis - 2016 - Décalages 2 (1):1-72.
    This paper argues that the reading of Althusser which finds a pronounced continuity in his conception of the relations among science, philosophy, and politics is the correct one, this essay will begin with an examination of Althusser’s “scientism.” The meaning of this term (one that differs slightly from contemporary usages) will be specified before showing how and in what way Althusser’s political philosophy between 1960 and 1980 can be described as “scientistic.” The next section details the important political role Althusser (...)
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  5. Note introductive à un document d’archive de Louis Althusser, 'Lettre au Comité central du PCF, 18 mars 1966' .William S. Lewis - 2020 - Décalages 3 (2):133-52.
    Cette note devait introduire à un public anglophone la traduction de la « Lettre de Louis Althusser datée du 18 mars 1966 et adressée au Comité central du PCF », elle est ici enrichie dans une version livrée au public français. Elle apporte le contexte historique et théorique nécessaire à la compréhension des interventions « anti-humanistes » de Louis Althusser qui questionne les choix politiques opérés par le PCF au cours des années 1960. Nulle part ailleurs, dans les écrits publiés (...)
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  6. Art or propaganda? Dewey and Adorno on the relationship between politics and art.William S. Lewis - 2005 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 19 (1):42-54.
    This paper articulates the similarities and differences between Adorno's and Dewey's aesthetics, showing the way in which these theories juxtapose real art against other forms of cultural expression which, in their duplication and strengthening of existing modes of culture, may be seen as progressively closing off the possibilities for the realization of true democracy or (what may be the same thing) the end of alienation. The paper distinguishes between art and propaganda and argues that, despite obvious differences between their philosophies (...)
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    Althusser's Materialisms: Dialectical, Historical, and Aleatory.William S. Lewis - 2024 - In John Symons & Charles Wolfe (eds.), The History and Philosophy of Materialism. New York, NY: Routledge.
    This chapter explains the “progressive elaboration” of Louis Althusser’s philosophy in relation to materialism. First, it shows the way in which Althusser’s thinking about materialism, Marxism, Marx’s materialism, and the correct materialism for Marxism had its roots in earlier Marxist reflection on the metaphysics of matter and science. Second, it demonstrates how Althusser’s materialism changed over time. In broad terms, this change can be described as the transition from a Marxist materialism that fully endorsed dialectical logic to one that denied (...)
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  8. Althusser on Laws Natural and Juridical.William S. Lewis - 2013 - In Laurent De Sutter (ed.), Althusser and Law. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
     
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    “Concrete Analysis and Pragmatic Social Theory (Notes Towards an Althusserian Critical Theory).”.William S. Lewis - 2007 - International Studies in Philosophy 39 (2):19.
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    Concrete Analysis and Pragmatic Social Theory (Notes Towards an Althusserian Critical Theory).William S. Lewis - 2007 - International Studies in Philosophy 39 (2):97-116.
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    Of Bonding and Bondage.William S. Lewis - 1998 - International Studies in Philosophy 30 (2):109-115.
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  12. The Purification of Theory for Practice: Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism.William S. Lewis - 2001 - Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University
    Through tracing the articulation, rise and eventual fall of Marxist theory in France, I seek in my dissertation to show the difficulties of wedding Marxist theory to ameliorative political practices.Specifically, I follow the development of French Marxism between 1920--1965 in order to demonstrate how the thought of Althusser is a reaction to and correction of both the crude materialist philosophy of the French Communist Party and of the more sophisticated humanist Marxism of such intellectuals as Cornu, Lefebvre, Garaudy, Sartre and (...)
     
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    War, manipulation of consent, and deliberative democracy.William S. Lewis - 2008 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 22 (4):pp. 266-277.
    Adding to the literature on the feasibility of deliberative democracy, this article catalogs the practices, institutions, and psychological proclivities that have been cited as obstacles to the realization of a deliberative democratic politics. It then makes the case that one of the irremediable obstacles, ideology, is also the the necessary starting point for actual deliberation.
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    Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction, edited by Nancy Cartwright and Eleonora Montuschi. [REVIEW]William S. Lewis - 2016 - Teaching Philosophy 39 (2):239-243.