La recepción de Althusser en México: el caso Carlos Pereyra

• Main Author: Alfonso Vázquez
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) 2017-06-01
• Series: Theoría
• Subjects: Pensadores mexicanos; Marxismo; Movilización política; Política; México
• Online Access: http://revistas.filos.unam.mx/index.php/theoria/article/view/441

The reception of the thought of Louis Althusser in Mexico took place between 1960 and 1970. The first to assimilate his theory and argue with her was the marxist thinker Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, who dedicated several essays and a fundamental book: Science and Revolution (Marxism of Althusser) (1978), besides always be a benchmark of constant controversy in most of his books where poses a different interpretation of the marxism of Althusser. Also in the decade of the seventies and eighties, a brilliant student and disciple of Sánchez Vázquez: Carlos Pereyra, published several texts influenced by Althusser thought that led him to critically assimilate many of his thesis, but also to question them when considered insufficient. The aim of this paper is to assess the althusserian influence on the work of Pereyra, particularly in his essays: Politic and Violence (1974), Settings: Theory and History (1979) and The Subject of History (1984).