Pierre Macherey
Encyclopedia
Pierre Macherey is a French
Marxist literary critic at Université Lille Nord de France
. A former student of Louis Althusser
and collaborator on the influential volume Reading "Capital", Macherey is a central figure in the development of French post-structuralism
and Marxism
. His work is influential in literary theory
and Continental philosophy
in Europe (including Britain) though it is generally little read in the United States.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
Marxist literary critic at Université Lille Nord de France
Université Lille Nord de France
The University of Lille -Nord de France , located in Lille, France, is a center for higher education, academic research and doctoral studies located over multiple campuses in the Academie de Lille....
. A former student of Louis Althusser
Louis Althusser
Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy....
and collaborator on the influential volume Reading "Capital", Macherey is a central figure in the development of French post-structuralism
Post-structuralism
Post-structuralism is a label formulated by American academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of French intellectuals who came to international prominence in the 1960s and '70s...
and Marxism
Marxism
Marxism is an economic and sociopolitical worldview and method of socioeconomic inquiry that centers upon a materialist interpretation of history, a dialectical view of social change, and an analysis and critique of the development of capitalism. Marxism was pioneered in the early to mid 19th...
. His work is influential in literary theory
Literary theory
Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. However, literary scholarship since the 19th century often includes—in addition to, or even instead of literary theory in the strict sense—considerations of...
and Continental philosophy
Continental philosophy
Continental philosophy, in contemporary usage, refers to a set of traditions of 19th and 20th century philosophy from mainland Europe. This sense of the term originated among English-speaking philosophers in the second half of the 20th century, who used it to refer to a range of thinkers and...
in Europe (including Britain) though it is generally little read in the United States.
Works
Only a partial selection of Macherey's work has been translated into English.- Reading CapitalReading CapitalReading Capital is a 1965 work of Marxist philosophy and theory. The book collects essays developed by Louis Althusser and his students in a seminar on Karl Marx's Das Kapital which took place earlier in 1965...
, (1965 - with Louis AlthusserLouis AlthusserLouis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy....
, Étienne BalibarÉtienne BalibarÉtienne Balibar is a French Marxist philosopher. After the death of his teacher Louis Althusser, Balibar quickly became the leading exponent of French Marxist philosophy.- Life and work :...
and Jacques RancièreJacques RancièreJacques Rancière is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris Jacques Rancière (born Algiers, 1940) is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee...
) - Hegel ou Spinoza, Maspéro, 1977 (reed. La Découverte, 2004)
- A Theory of Literary Production (1978): ISBN 0-415-04613-0
- Hegel et la société, PUFUniversity Presses of FrancePresses Universitaires de France or PUF , founded in 1921 by Paul Angoulvent , is the largest French university publishing house....
, (1984) - The Object of Literature (1995): ISBN 0-521-47678-X
- In a Materialist Way: Selected Essays (1998 ed. Warren MontagWarren MontagWarren Montag is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. He is known primarily for his work on twentieth century French theory, especially Althusser and his circle, as well as his studies of the philosopher Spinoza.-Overview:Montag's...
): ISBN 1-85984-949-0 - "Hegel or Spinoza", University of Minnesota Press (due 10 Jan 2012). Translator, Susan M. Ruddick