Postmodernism: Materialist?

[Kevin Hirsch]

The list-serv ate my Umlaut, it's "Ueberteterminierung."

-Kevin

> From: Kevin Hirsch <hirschk@anet.net>
> Reply-To: frankfurt-school@lists.village.virginia.edu
> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 23:36:04 -0800
> To: frankfurt-school@lists.village.virginia.edu
> Subject: Re: Postmodernism: Materialist?
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> 
>> Rauno Huttunen wrote:
>> 
>> Althusser didn't like Hegel(he
>> did like Durkheim and Saussure) so he constructed the concept of
>> overdetermination which has nothing to do with causal laws.
> 
> I don't know what Hegel has to do with causal laws, either, but in any case,
> it was Freud who produced the concept of over-determination
> (berdeterminierung), which Althusser likely came upon by way of Lacan.
> 
> -Kevin  
> 
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