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The Althusserian Legacy

By E. Ann Kaplan , Michael Sprinker

Book information

Publisher
Verso Books
Year
1992
ISBN
0860913996, 9780860913993
Open Library ID
OL1498811M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3307076 bytes)
Pages
256\251
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-05-31 02:30:10

Description

On his death in October 1990, Louis Althusser remained one of the most controversial of the "master thinkers" to emerge from the Parisian intellectual scene of the 1960s. "The Althusserian Legacy" is a collective attempt to draw up a balance sheet, not on Althusser alone but on the questions that his work pushed to the forefront of Marxist theory. It brings together writing in history, philosophy, economics, sociology, and literary criticism, all of it deriving from or significantly inflected by Althusser. The volume contains an interview with Jacques Derrida, long-time friend and colleague of Althusser at the Ecole Normale in Paris, and concludes with two obituaries by Derrida and Gregory Elliott. The contributors include - Etienne Balibar, Alex Callinicos, Michele Barrett, Alain Lipietz and Gregory Elliott.

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