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Book SynopsisReligion has always been an object of philosophical analysis and a platform for political practice. Philosophical thinking is unimaginable without its relation to religion, whether it negates or affirms the latter. Indeed, religion serves as a condition for philosophy. Althusser and Theology intends not so much to fill a gap in Althusser scholarship as to contribute to the contemporary radical left.
Table of ContentsPreface to the English Edition Chapter One The 1860s and 1870s: Marxism rejected, and the humus of Marxism 1.1 The democratic antithesis 1.2. The anarchist antithesis Chapter Two The Marxism of the 1880s: the characteristics of a transition 2.1. Socialist culture: sociology 2.2. Socialist culture: political economy Chapter Three The Marxism of the 1890s: Foundation – and Orthodoxy? 3.1. The ‘Partito marxista’ 3.2. Between ideology, science, utopia and religio 3.3. ‘The anatomy of civil society’ 3.4. The end-of-century Marxist corpus Chapter Four Historical Materialism 4.1. What philosophy? What philosophy of history? 4.2. Materialism and a ‘philosophy for socialism’ Chapter Five Marxism and Reformism 5.1. Did reformism have theoretical roots? On the question of ‘catastrophism’ 5.2. Turati, the ‘Marxist’ and ‘reformist’ 5.3. The economic theory of the workers’ movement 5.4. The articulations of non-Marxist reformism, the returns of history, and again on reformist Marxism Chapter Six Marxism and Revolutionary Syndicalism 6.1. Did syndicalism have roots in end-of-the-century ‘revisionism’? 6.2. Early definitions of a ‘Left’-Marxism 6.3. Enrico Leone’s and Arturo Labriola’s Marx in the ‘high’ period of syndicalist theory 6.4. Marxism and elitism in the universe of ‘minor’ syndicalist intellectuals 6.5. De hominis dignitate. A workers’ syndicalist Marxism? La Scintilla in Ferrara and Il Martello in Piombino References Index
