How To Think With Our Bodies: Althusser's Theoretical Practice Revisited

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/sh.690801
Palabras clave: Althusser, body, ideology, theories of knowledge, philosophy, theoretical practice

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The aim of this article is to revisit Louis Althusser’s notion of theoretical practice in order to suggest that this points to a highly original attempt to think knowledge not as something that has to do with a ‘thinking consciousness’ as traditional theories of knowledge suggest, but as a collective material process and practice. In this sense, we might say that we are thinking with our bodies rather than our minds. To that end we also revisit Michel Pêcheux’s work and his conceptualisation of knowledge as a process without a subject, before returning to Althusser’s call for a new materialist practice of philosophy.

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17-03-2026
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Sotiris, P. (2026). How To Think With Our Bodies: Althusser’s Theoretical Practice Revisited. Sociología Histórica, 16(1), 63–91. https://doi.org/10.6018/sh.690801
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I. Filosofía social y explotación