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100	1	0	_aBalibar, Étienne _eauthor
245	0	0	_aThe Instance of the Letter and the Last Instance
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520			_aIn the 1960s and 70s, first Lacan and then Althusser invoked the category of instance, in a way which would mark what is today called the «structuralist moment» of French philosophy, profoundly influencing the discourse of those who were the disciples of both. The complex system of references to action, demand, insistence, effectivity, decision, hierarchy, which found themselves combined in the notion, proves difficult to translate into other languages, and in particular into English (which has today become the paramount language of critical theory). In order to achieve a syncretism of three heritages (Marx, Freud, Saussure), the French theorists drew on the polysemic extension of the word « instance», which while it does exist in English, operates differently. Hence the interest in examining the divergent choices made by the English and American translators, reading them as symptoms of certain tensions and of a logical instability which affect, from within, the «structuralist» paradigm à la française.
690			_ainstance
690			_aAlthusser
690			_astructuralism
690			_asubject
690			_aLacan
786	0		_nActuel Marx | o 59 | 1 | 2016-03-17 | p. 42-52 | 0994-4524
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-actuel-marx-2016-1-page-42?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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