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 ...

Jameson arrives at his most salient account of le regard, and of identity, by way of Louis Althusser, who, along with Sartre, plays a starring role in The Years of Theory. It makes sense that ...

date from the early 1990s. The moment of French philosophy develops between the two of them, and includes Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty, Lévi-Strauss, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida and Lacan as well as ...

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 ...