Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:22:19 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: HEGEL, ALTHUSSER, PHILOSOPHY & SCIENCE


> By the way, yesterday was Althusser's birthday.  Althusser was
> born on October 16, 1918, approximately one year after Durkheim's death
> (Durkheim died on November 15, 1917). Those of us who follow the history of
> French structuralism, the historical symbolism is hard to miss.

Symbolic perhaps, but nothing more. There is, after all, no reason to
believe that there is a cause-and-effect relation between the birth of
Althusser and the death of Durkheim.

Jerry



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