In the 1960s and 1970s Louis Althusser edited a series at the radical publisher François Maspero. Many of the books published were by his students. Several of the books were later reedited in either Maspero’s Petite collection and/or by other presses, and lots of translations with different publishers. But the books formed a strong collection.
Update: I have written a short history of the series for the Verso blog.
To the best of my knowledge, these are the books published in the series and its sub-series. Corrections and additions very welcome. Some other things I found are listed below.
Main Series
Louis Althusser, Pour Marx, 1965; multiple reprints; trans. Ben Brewster as For Marx, London: NLB, 1969; multiple reprints.
Louis Althusser, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Macherey, Lire le Capital I, 1965; multiple reprints; part trans. Ben Brewster as Reading Capital, NLB, 1970; multiple reprints; trans. Ben Brewster and David Fernbach as Reading Capital: The Complete Edition, London: Verso, 2016.
Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Lire le Capital II, 1965; multiple reprints; part trans. Ben Brewster as Reading Capital, NLB, 1970; multiple reprints; trans. Ben Brewster and David Fernbach as Reading Capital: The Complete Edition, London: Verso, 2016.
Pierre Macherey, Pour une théorie de la production litteraire, 1968; trans Geoffrey Wall, Theory of Literary Production, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978; reprinted Routledge, 1996.
Michel Pêcheux, Les vérités de la Palice: Linguistique, sémantique, philosophie, 1975; trans. Harbans Nagpal, Language, Semantics and Ideology: Stating the Obvious, London: Macmillan, 1982.
Jean-Pierre Osier, Thomas Hodgskin: Une critique prolétarienne de l’économie politique, 1976.
Étienne Balibar, Sur La Dictature du Prolétariat, 1976; trans. Grahame Lock, On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, London: NLB, 1977.
Dominique Lecourt, Lyssenko: Histoire réelle d’une ‘science prolétarienne’, 1976; Proletarian Science? The Case of Lysenko, London: NLB, 1977.
A. Bogdanov, La Science, l’art et la classe ouvrière, trans. Blanche Grinbaum, 1977.
Gérard Duménil, Le concept de loi économique dans ‘Le Capital’, 1977.
Louis Althusser, 22eme congrès, 1977; trans. Ben Brewster, “On the Twenty-Second Congress of the French Communist Party”, New Left Review 104, 1977, 3-22; reprinted in Étienne Balibar, On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, London: NLB, 1977, 193-211.
Louis Althusser, Ce qui ne peut plus durer dans le parti communiste, 1978.
Pierre Macherey, Hegel ou Spinoza, 1979; reprints; trans. Sue Ruddick, Hegel or Spinoza, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Françoise Gadet, Michel Pêcheux, La Langue introuvable, 1981.
Série «textes»
Ludwig Feuerbach, L’essence du christianisme, trans. J-P Osier, 1968.
Josef Dietzgen, Pièces pour un dossier: «L’essence du travail intellectual humain» Écrits philosophiques annotés par Lénine, trans. J.P. Osier, 1973.
G.W.F. Hegel, La societe civile bourgeoise, ed. Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, 1975.
Série «Écrits politiques»
Luxun, Pamphlets et libelles (1925-1936), trans. Michelle Loi, 1977.
Cours de philosophie pour scientifiques
These volumes were actually published; others were promised but never appeared. For more on this series see here
Michel Pêcheux, Michel Fichant, III Sur l’histoire des sciences, 1969, reprinted 1971.
Alain Badiou, IV Le Concept de Modèle: Introduction à une épistémologie matérialiste des mathématiques, 1969, reprinted 1972; The Concept of Model, trans. Zachary Fraser and Tzuchien Tho, re.press, 2007.
Louis Althusser, Philosophie et Philosophie spontanée des savants (1967), 1974; “Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists”, trans. Warren Montag, in Gregory Elliott ed. Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists, London: Verso, 1990, 69–165
Série «Analyses»
Bernard Edelman, Le droit saisi par la photographie, 1973; trans. Elizabeth Kingdom, as Ownership of the Image: Elements for a Marxist Theory of Law, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979.
Pierre Raymond, Le passage au matérialisme: idéalisme et matérialisme dans l’histoire de la philosophie, mathématiques et matérialisme, 1973.
Étienne Balibar, Cesare Luporini, André Tosel, Marx et sa critique de la politique, 1979.
This text includes a brief ‘Avertissement’ by Balibar and three separate studies:
- André Tosel, ‘Les critiques de la politique chez Marx’
- Cesare Luporini, ‘Le politique et l’étatique: Une ou deux critiques?’
- Étienne Balibar,’ État, parti, idéologie: Esquisse d’un problème’
Gérard Duménil, Le concept de loi économique dans ‘Le Capital’, 1977.
Media
In 1982, Maspero became Éditions La Découverte, which has reprinted some of the above works.
On the publisher there are two articles at Viewpoint:
Salar Mohandesi, Shaping the Intellectual Terrain: On François Maspero
Julian Hage, François Maspero: Publisher, (P)artisan
An interview with François Maspero (1970) is online:
There is also a more recent interview:
Entretien avec François Maspero : « Quelques malentendus » (Période); An interview with François Maspero: A Few Misunderstandings (Verso)
An exhibition about the press was held in 2009; and a related collection of essays was published as François Maspero et les paysages humains (La Fosse Aux Ours, 2009).
Andy Merrifield, Cooperation Has a Meaning: François Maspero and Monthly Review
Progressive Geographies 