Rzecz myśląca maszerująca. Przyczynek do krytyki teorii ideologii tout court
THE MARCHING THINKING THING: CONTRIBUTION TO THE CRITIQUE OF THE THEORY OF IDEOLOGY TOUT COURT

Summary/Abstract: This paper is meant to be a brief account on Louis Althusser’s theory of ideology formulated in Ideology and ideological state apparatuses and on its epistemic conditions of possibility. As such, it can also be seen as a sort of its critique in a Kantian sense. The author traces functional and structural analogies between Althusserian notion of “subject of interpellation” and Cartesian concept of subjectivity. In conclusion, Althusser’s theory of ideology is shown to be strictly a post-Cartesian one. As such, it is perhaps not well suited to analyze non- or pre-Cartesian societies. But more importantly, we may ask: is it possible to think of some radically different, post-Cartesian, and thus post-capitalistic future while still using Cartesian categories?

• Details
• Contents