Index
Note: One of Althusser’s most comprehensive English translators, Ben Brewster, compiled a “Glossary” of key terms in Althusserian theory in 1969. This Glossary appeared at the end of the first English translation of Reading Capital (2016) and was reissued with the full publication of that book. The following index is based on the terms in that glossary, with a few additions.
Abstract
xii, xiv, 20, 26, 29, 30, 71
Apparatus
xvii, 9, 16, 18, 19, 54–59, 72, 80
Balance of forces
xvi, 15, 16, 38, 40–45, 50–52, 64, 65, 68, 69, 73–77
Base
16–18, 56, 59–61, 68, 70
Bearer
10, 62–65
Causality
29, 57
Combination
14, 17, 41–43, 48–50, 60, 68
Concrete-in-thought, real-concrete
20–25, 28, 32
Conjuncture
41, 61, 65, 73, 74, 78
Contradiction
30, 38, 47, 52, 53, 57, 61
Dislocation
xii, 20–36, 38, 39, 50–54, 65, 68, 69, 72, 73, 75, 79
Ecologies
54
Effectivity
42, 43, 46, 64, 68
Empiricism
20, 26–28, 33, 34, 36, 72
Epistemological break
34–36, 79
Expressivism
32–34, 36
Force
xiii, xiv, xvi, 3, 8, 15–19, 25, 36, 38–46, 48, 50–65, 67–69, 71, 73–78
Generality (I–III)
23, 51, 76
Humanism
33, 65
Ideology
xii, xiv, xvii, 1, 4, 9–16, 34, 35, 44, 51, 56, 58, 63, 64, 70–77, 79
Immanent
10, 30, 49, 50, 52, 54, 57, 62, 64, 70, 76
Overdetermination
43, 47, 68
Philosophy
xii–xvii, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, 31, 35, 37, 39, 44, 58, 61, 64, 69–71, 73–75, 77–80
Practice
1, 9, 10, 24, 26, 28, 31, 33, 36, 37, 51, 55, 56, 58–65, 67, 68, 70–72, 74, 76–80
theoretical
24, 26, 28, 33, 58, 70, 72, 76
Problematic
xvi, 23, 34–36, 78
geological
53
Production
knowledge
29, 51, 72
mode of
43, 55, 60
Productive forces
44, 59–62, 67
Relations of production
xii, 16, 17, 19, 41, 44, 53, 55, 56, 58, 63
Repression
xii, xiii, 54, 55, 58
Reproduction
xii, xvii, 9, 11, 12, 16, 17, 19, 41, 54, 55, 78
Social formation
xii, 15, 16, 18, 19, 38, 41–43, 45, 46, 52–70, 75, 77, 78
Structure
10, 11, 13–18, 25, 26, 38, 39, 43, 44, 46–52, 54–57, 60–65, 68–70, 73, 74, 79
in dominance
39, 46, 47, 50–52, 56
Superstructure
16, 44, 60, 61, 70
Time
xii, xiii, xv, 1–8, 10, 15, 16, 19, 21, 25, 29, 30, 33, 35, 36, 38, 41, 43–46, 48, 51, 55, 56, 59, 66, 70, 72, 74, 77, 80
Totality
23, 39, 49, 50
Transcendent
49–51
Truth
24, 26, 29, 32, 35, 70–75
Uneven development
xii, 36–53, 55, 60, 68, 69, 79
Variation
16, 19, 25, 38, 39, 41–46, 50, 52, 54–60, 62–65, 68–70, 75