At the Crossroads. Patočka and Althusser on the Idea of Modern Science

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11212-024-09680-z" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11212-024-09680-z</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

At the Crossroads. Patočka and Althusser on the Idea of Modern Science

Original language description

In this article, I examine the points of confluence and dissonance in Jan Patočka and Louis Althusser’s respective theories of the idea of modern science, focusing on two texts from 1965, Patočka’s “Conférences de Louvain” and Althusser’s Lire le Capital. I argue that while Patočka’s diagnosis—which he shares with Husserl-of the “abyss” lying between the empty schematism of modern scientific formalization and an engaged concern for the přirození svět or “natural world” (broadly analogous to Husserl’s Lebenswelt) remains a variously inflected constant in his thought, Althusser’s reading of Capital offers an objective correction or supplement to Patočka’s diagnosis. In this view, it is Reading Capital that first presents Marx’s Capital as a scientifically precise yet historically and socially determined and “concerned” (to use Patočka’s term) logical formalization of the contemporary, capitalist world. While Patočka’s few passing references to the young Marx throughout his kompletní dílo uniformly present the latter as a thinker of the post-Hegelian humanism of labour and productive subjectivity, I argue following Althusser and Alain Badiou that in Capital, Marx constructs an asubjective science of the necessary forms of appearance of all things in a historically specific world, a logical and scientific formalization of the historically specific “life world” Marx defines as the capitalist social form.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-20319S" target="_blank" >GA19-20319S: From Bolzano to Badiou: An Investigation of the Foundations of Historical Epistemology and Modern European Philosophy</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Studies in East European Thought

ISSN

0925-9392

e-ISSN

1573-0948

Volume of the periodical

77

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

511-534

UT code for WoS article

001339313500002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85207017492