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Agon Hamza 
Althusser and Pasolini 
Philosophy, Marxism, and Film

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 Agon Hamza offers an in-depth analysis of the main thesis of Louis Althusser’s philosophical enterprise alongside a clear, engaging dissection of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s most important films. There is a philosophical, religious, and political relationship between Althusser’s philosophy and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s films.  Hamza teases out the points of contact, placing specific focus on critiques of ideology, religion, ideological state apparatuses, and the class struggle. The discussion, however, does not address Althusser and Pasolini alone. Hamza also draws on Spinoza, Hegel, Marx, and Žižek to complete his study. Pasolini’s films are a treasure-trove of Althusserian thought, and Hamza ably employs Althusserian terms in his reading of the films.
Althusser and Pasolini provides a creative reconstruction of Althusserian philosophy, as well as a novel examination of Pasolini’s film from the perspective of the filmmaker’s own thought and Althusser’s theses.  
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Introduction: Althusser and Pasolini.- PART I: On Althusser.- 1. Contextualisation.- 2. Periodization.- 3. Taking Sides: Hegel or Spinoza?.- 4. Structural Causality.- 5. Althusser before Althusser: from Christianity to Communism.- 6. Marxists’ Preshistory.- 7. Proletariat of Human Condition Versus the Proletariat of Labor.- 8. Christian Materialism.- 9. Antiphilosophy.- 10. Definition of Ideology.- 11. Epistemological Break.- 12. Interpellation.- 13. State Apparatuses.- 14. Church as an Ideological State Apparatus


15. Althusser’s Politics.- PART II: The Gospel According to Althusser.- 16. Setting the Stage.- 17. Camera as an Ideological Apparatus.- 18. Film as a Commodity.- 19.  Representation.- 20. The Christian Reality.- 21. Religious Suspension of the Theological.- 22. Religious-Political.- us Humanity.- 25. The Politics of Religion.- 26. Pasolini’s Political Though.- Conclusion: Marxism and Film. 





About the author

 Agon Hamza is a Ph D candidate in philosophy at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He serves as the co-editor-in-chief of the international philosophical journal
Crisis and Critique. His latest publications are:
Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism (co-edited with Frank Ruda),
Repeating Žižek, and From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo, co-authored with Slavoj Žižek.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 202 ● ISBN 9781137566522 ● File size 3.1 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4906284 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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