LA RUPTURA EPISTEMOLÓGICA SEGÚN BACHELARD, ALTHUSSER Y BADIOU

Abstract

The French philosopher Louis Althusser produced in the mid‘60s a real theoretical revolution. The renewal of Marxism
that he impulsed was grounded inter alia on the contributions of French epistemological tradition. In that sense, it is salient the  notion of “rupture épistémologique” that took from Gaston Bachelard. The difficulty was that, while for Althusser and  structuralist movement of that time, human history was dominated by necesity, in the order of knowledge, because “coupure épistémologique”, contingency played a central role. This paper argues that there is an interesting way of rethinking the  “rupture épistémologique” as a real event in the field of science opened by the work of Alain Badiou.