French philosopher Louis Althusser's (1918–1990) concept of overdetermination is a complex, multifaceted, and structural model of causality. In contrast to the idea that simple internal contradictions within a system or social formation produce effects, overdetermination proposes that (revolutionary) effects are the ...

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