Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 16:35:36 +0300 (EET DST)
From: j laari <jlaari-AT-cc.jyu.fi>
Subject: Re: HEGEL, ALTHUSSER, PHILOSOPHY & SCIENCE


Incarnation?

> >  ... 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.

Perhaps the original idea was that Althusser is incarnated Durkheim?

Jukka



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