Materialism, Subject and Organization: The Limits of Ideological Formalization

Abstract

This paper goes through the reconstruction of a debate, revolving around the concept of dialectics, that took place in XX century’s France, more specifically between those associated with Louis Althusser’s work and ideas. Though challenging the fuctin that the latter assigned to ideology and its analysis, the whole aim of this pages consists, while touching upon Badiou’s, Balibar’s and Rancière’s critiques of Althusser, in re-thinking ideology in a way that does not force out other core components of dialectical materialism, i. e. contradiction, subject or History.

Althusser; Dialectics; Ideology; Dialectical Materialism; Subject; Badiou.