# Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-1987

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- Authors: [Louis Althusser](https://www.bookquiver.com/louis-althusser)
- Publisher: verso_books
- ISBN: 978-18-4467-553-1
- Pages: 350
- Published: 2006-06-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the late 1970s and 1980s, Louis Althusser endured a period of intense mental instability during which he murdered his wife and was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Spanning this deeply troubling period, this fourth and final volume of political and philosophical writings reveals Althusser wrestling in a creative and unorthodox fashion with a whole series of theoretical problems to produce some of his very finest work. In his profound exploration of questions of determinism and contingency, Althusser developed a “philosophy of the encounter,” which he links to a hidden and subterranean tradition in the history of Western thought which stretches from Epicurus through Spinoza and Machiavelli to Marx, Derrida and Heidegger.