Las antinomias de Althusser, o el recomienzo de la filosofí­a desde una posición materialista

Abstract

This article focuses on the analysis of theoretical tensions linked to the issue of political change manifest in the late period of French philosopher Louis Althusser's work: aleatory or encounter materialism, in the 1980s. However, the exposition accords special attention to the possible continuities between the arguments where these tensions arise and issues already stated in previous texts. Thus, the article exposes through some problematic axes the recurrence and displacement of of sensitive questions upon which Althusser seems to reflect almost obsessively, showing -from the very early stages- elements in a shape that later reappear, although on a different balance