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Machiavelli and Us (Radical Thinkers Classic Editions)

Machiavelli and Us (Radical Thinkers Classic Editions)

by Louis Althusser (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

    $19.68
Synopsis

"We do not publish our own drafts, that is, our own mistakes, but we do sometimes publish other people's," Louis Althusser once observed of Marx's early writings. Among his own posthumously released drafts, one, at least, is incontestably neither mistake nor out-take: the text of his lecture course on Machiavelli, originally delivered at the ecole Normale Superieure in 1972, intermittently revised up to the mid-1980s, and carefully prepared for publication after his death in 1990. Though only appearing as an occasional reference in the Marxist philosopher's oeuvre, Machiavelli was an unseen constant presence. For together with Spinoza and Marx, Machiavelli was a veritable Althusserian passion. Machiavelli and Us reveals why, and will be welcomed for the light it sheds on the richly complex thought of its author.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: 2nd
 Publisher: Verso
Published: 10 Jan 2011
ISBN 10: 1844676757
ISBN 13: 9781844676750

Media Reviews
Althusser, poised between modernism and postmodernism, meets Machiavelli, poised between the Middle Ages and modernity.A Antonio Negri
Author Bio
Louis Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in France in 1990. He taught philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party. His books include For Marx ; Reading Capital (with Etienne Balibar); Essays in Ideology ; Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx ; Machiavelli and Us ; and The Spectre of Hegel. Gregory Elliott is a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and author of Althusser: The Detour of Theory and Labourism and the English Genius: The Strange Decay of Labour England?.