In defense of the aleatory materialism

Abstract

The last stage of the philosopher Louis Althusser awakens a great interest in the resolution of many questions appointed since his first publications in the decade of 60, among which the most relevant of them is the teleology in the historical materialism. However, his publications about the so-called “Aleatory Materialism” just appeared post mortem and also the fatidic episode of his wife’s murder contributed to the repudiation and the fall into oblivion of the author. The encounter materialism’s is also a realization of a project more ambitious, that is, the establishment of a philosophy for Marxism. In this case, an unsystematic philosophy open to the historical events and also impulse a political project of transition. Philosophy established so as to escape the interpellation of individuals into subjects, a deviance of the dominant ideology. We will thus be discussing the category of clinamen as a deviance of the “subjection” and above all as a category allowing political action. From the analyse done by the intellectual Vittorio Morfino, we will observe the main foundations, as an invisible kernel, of the theorical position of the althusserian aleatory in the chore of Charles Darwin’s materialism. In a conjecture, the question of dialectic and his role reserved to theory, Ideology, social formation and the possibility of a political action inscribed in the clinamen