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Perspectives on Neuroscience
Published on: July 31, 2007
[Althusser/Bachelard: An epistemological break at stake]
1Département de philosophie de l'université de Liège, Place du XX août, 7 (Bat. A1), Liège, Belgium, andrea.cavazzini@ulg.ac.be.
Abstract:
Louis Althusser claimed that Bachelard and french historical epistemology were an influence on his own attempt to reconstruct Marxism. Yet, both the nature and the working of this influence are far from obvious. The links between Bachelard and Althusser have often been reduce to a serie of formulas that endeed up concealing, rather than revealing, the way Althusser used epistemology and philosophy of science.
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