Category Archives: Louis Althusser

Reading Capital: The Complete Edition by Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Rancière

Posted on June 2, 2016 by stuartelden

Reading Capital: The Complete Edition, by Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Rancière, now published by Verso. A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, … Continue reading →

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LA Review of Books section on Althusser – includes new translation of Althusser on Rousseau

Posted on May 16, 2016 by stuartelden

The LA Review of Books has a theme section on Althusser – which includes a new translation of a lecture on Rousseau from 1972, and six essays including ones by Nina Power, Jason Barker and Richard Seymour. The  whole Rousseau … Continue reading →

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Johannes Angermuller, Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France – now out with Bloomsbury (and free download of introduction)

Posted on September 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Johannes Angermuller, Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France – now out with Bloomsbury (and free download of introduction). French thinkers such as Lacan and Derrida are often labelled as representatives of ‘poststructuralism’ in the Anglophone world. However in France, … Continue reading →

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Althusser et. al. – Reading Capital: The Complete Edition forthcoming from Verso

Posted on April 25, 2015 by stuartelden

It’s only taken fifty years, but Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Rancière’s Reading Capital: The Complete Edition is forthcoming from Verso. Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, which sought to reconstruct Western Marxism … Continue reading →

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Louis Althusser et nous – Le magazine littéraire interviews with Balibar, Rancière et. al.

Posted on February 5, 2015 by stuartelden

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Lire Capital and Pour Marx,  Le magazine littéraire interviews Balibar, Rancière, Lévy and Milner. It also announces two forthcoming volumes of previously-unpublished material.

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Althusser’s On the Reproduction of Capitalism reviewed

Posted on April 20, 2014 by stuartelden

Althusser’s On the Reproduction of Capitalism is reviewed at Review 31.

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Rafael Khachaturian in Dissent on Althusser

Posted on March 14, 2014 by stuartelden

In Dissent, Rafael Khachaturian examines Althusser’s legacy.

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Books received (2 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Henry Reynolds, The Law of the Land (a gift from Jean Hillier – a good starting point for the issue of indigenous land rights in Australia, read on the plane home) Nikos Papastergiadis, Ambient Perspectives Nikos Papastergiadis, Cornelius Castoriadis – this and the … Continue reading →

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Books received (1 of 4)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by stuartelden

As I’ve been away for eight weeks, there was a small mountain of post waiting me in the office. This is the first of four posts listing what arrived. a new copy of Heidegger’s Basic Writings. My old copy is falling … Continue reading →

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9 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in February from Critical-Theory.com

Posted on February 27, 2014 by stuartelden

9 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in February from Critical-Theory.com – Althusser, Negri, Miller, Bartlett/Clemens/Roffe, Constantinou, Butler, Braun, Losurdo, Epstein.

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