A journey through Althusser's thought: an aleatory structuralism

The present paper recaps some of the central moments of the theoretical production of Louis Althusser in order to point out a perspective with which to approach the continuity of his work: the rejection of the contradiction as it is proposed by Hegel. This rejection leads him to contest that the contradictions that found the social order produce within them the figures that will overcome it. To these ends, we will examinate the fundamental premises of structuralism, of the concept of process without subject and ends, and of aleatory materialism, which sums up the perspective of Althusser's later writings.