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Table of Contents

Preface by Guillame Sibertin-Blanc


Editors Note by G.M. Goshgarian

INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY FOR NON-PHILOSOPHERS

1. What do non-philosophers say?
2. Philosophy and religion

THE GREAT DETOUR

3. Abstraction
4. Technical abstraction and scientific abstraction
5. Philosophical abstraction
6. The myth of the State of Nature
7. What is practice?
8. The practice of production
9. Scientific practice and idealism
10. Scientific practice and materialism
11. Ideological practice
12. The ideological state apparatuses
13. Political practice
14. Psychoanalytic practice
15. Artistic practice
16. Philosophical practice
17. Dominant ideology and philosophy
18. The theoretical laboratory of philosophy
19. Ideology and philosophy
20. Philosophy and science of the class struggle
21. A new practice of philosophy
22. The dialectic: laws or theses?

(Translated by Ted Stolze and excerpted from Louis Althusser, Initiation la philosophie pour les
non-philosophes [Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2014])

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