No vazio de uma distância tomada: Althusser e a Prática da Filosofia

My aim is to discuss the conditions and implications of the displacement performed by Althusser from his inicial definition of philosophy as the “theory of theoretical pratice” to a later definition of philosophy as struggle and as positiontaking over the emptyness. We issue as an hypothesis that it would be accurate to apply to althusserian works the concept of an epistemological rupture or cut, and that it could lead us to understand the passage from the dialetical materialism to aleatory materialism as Althusser’s own “theoretical revolution”.