Ecatology à la cantonade: Althusser beyond Derrida

Trans/Form/Ação 34 (2):179-192 (2011)
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The article proposes a comparison between Althusser and Derrida on the question of temporality through the two Marx's reading sub specie theatri set by the two authors in Pour Marx and in Spectres de Marx. From this comparison emerges that the althusserian theory of temporality is beyond the teleology of the hegelo-marxist tradition, but also of the messianism without messiah that is at the core of the Derrida's interpretation of Marx strongly influenced by Benjamin. In this sense, in a provocative way, it can be said that in Althusser the escatology is à la cantonade.O autor propõe um confronto entre Althusser e Derrida acerca da questão da temporalidade, focalizando a leitura que os dois autores fazem de Marx sub specie theatri. A partir desse confronto, emerge uma teoria da temporalidade althusseriana, a qual se encontra para além, quer da teleologia da tradição hegeliano-marxista, quer do messianismo sem Messias proposto por Derrida, em sua releitura benjaminiana de Marx. Nesse sentido, a escatologia em Althusser é pensável somente à la cantonade.

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Vittorio Morfino
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