This chapter discusses the key nodal points of the ongoing “crisis” of the concept of materialism in the tradition of Marxism, employing Althusser’s 1967 essay “Lenin and Philosophy” as a penultimate moment. The chapter then concludes by placing the current definition of “new materialism” in contemporary continental philosophy as a final crisis that belongs to this tradition.

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“Is Philosophy Merely the Continuation of Politics by Another Means?” Or Vladimir Lenin Comes to Dinner

  • Gregg Lambert

摘要

This chapter discusses the key nodal points of the ongoing “crisis” of the concept of materialism in the tradition of Marxism, employing Althusser’s 1967 essay “Lenin and Philosophy” as a penultimate moment. The chapter then concludes by placing the current definition of “new materialism” in contemporary continental philosophy as a final crisis that belongs to this tradition.