Iundertook to write this obituary of Louis Althusser for the alumni of the École Normale Supérieure in 1993, nearly three years after the thinker’s death; and not without hesitations and ...

How can Althusser and Aristophanes, Gissing and Gramsci, Weber and Woolf co-exist so unembarrassedly within the same covers? Is this ‘literary criticism’ or not? The answer is ‘probably not’; it is ...