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“... As pensionnaire étranger at the Ecole Normale Supérieure I thought I might be able to turn to Louis Althusser, but discovered that he was not technically qualified to supervise doctoral work. From an earlier stay in Paris I knew Gaston Fessard, an old friend of Aron and the author of what I believe to be the only published monograph on Aron’s ...”

“... latterly enlisted in the armies of the Right in denying Lebensraum to Marxist history. In France, Louis Althusser and his disciples, and in England followers such as Paul Q. Hirst and Barry Hindess, have argued that the business of Marxist intellectuals is to construct not history but theory (e.g. a rationally water tight account of the transition from ...”

“... football and confident with women.At 19, he left Algeria for the first time to attend the lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, and then the Ecole Normale Supérieure. There he began a long, tortured relationship with the grandes écoles. His teachers often complained that they couldn’t understand his papers: Foucault wasn’t sure whether to give him an A or an ...”

“... only from a belated reading of his books, plus some correspondence with the author of Pour Marx, Louis Althusser. Attali comes from the old Jewish community in Algeria, most of whose members emigrated to France after Algerian independence. Best known as president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, he was also an adviser to ...”

“... Debord came out of the Hegelian line of Marxism that Foucault questioned sharply (as did Louis Althusser, his teacher, who produced his own anti-Hegelian reading of Marx). If the Marxist conceptions of ideology and class are sidelined, as Foucault sometimes urged, there is little left of Marx. Yet Foucault wasn’t as distant from Marx as he ...”

“... at the University of Paris-VIII. Rancière emerged at the age of 25 as a co-author, with Althusser, of Reading ‘Capital’ (1965), but broke with him over the revolts of May 1968: Althusser took the Party line, accusing the participants of ‘infantile leftism’. For Rancière ‘the lesson of ...”

“... Louis XIV can hardly complain of being neglected by posterity. The stream of books about him shows no sign of running dry. Even so, the simultaneous appearance of two studies of Louis from Les Editions de Minuit is a little surprising: did the right hand know what the left hand was publishing? What is more, both books are concerned with the King’s public image, rather than his policies or his private life ...”

“... old philosophy teacher at the Ecole Normale: Maurice Clavel’s telephone never stops ringing; Louis Althusser’s is much more discreet. The former can introduce me into a number of sanctums, but the latter is still a mediatic cul-de-sac: no contacts in TV, no page in a weekly, no radio slot, just a collection of theoretical works whose clandestinity ...”

“... of half-remembered arguments and dicta from the Cold War era. One of them was a strange remark Louis Althusser made a few years before his death about the kind of world he had hoped for, a place brought into being by an immaterial combination of desire and labour – a ground without ‘shadows’. Kosovo is a ground almost entirely overshadowed by ...”

“... of writers and thinkers in France. The group Derrida has in mind includes Barthes (born 1915), Althusser (born 1918), Deleuze (born 1925) and Foucault (born 1926). Three years later Lyotard (born 1924) is also dead, and Derrida (born 1930) identifies himself now as ‘the last born, and, no doubt, the most melancholic of the group’. The book brings ...”

“... by the pressures and limits of a particular social world than the novels would have us believe’. Louis Althusser’s essay ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’ appeared in English in 1971. It provided our author – now Terry and now, in a somewhat unlikely move, translated to Oxford – with the framework for the three books he published ...”

“... penalty, and the left-wing figures who went anyway were later subjected, Barthes’s biographer Louis-Jean Calvet reports, to sarcastic inquiries such as ‘So, how was the soup?’ Barthes didn’t like being sneered at for consorting with a patrician representative of the centre-right, and his friends made it known that he had, over coffee, made pointedly ...”

“... touched, and the discontinuities. John wanted to talk of theoretical issues. He had been reading Althusser. It became an argument about death as a fundamental reality. I assume John was arguing that any conception of death is constituted within an ideology and that in that sense it had no absolute unmediated reality. In the background was the knowledge that ...”

“... ambitions. They looked abroad, especially to the Continent and the likes of Lukács, Gramsci and Althusser, for remedies against what they saw as the tired empiricism and little Englandism of their predecessors. The aim, Stedman Jones explained in 1971, was to develop Marxism as both ‘a revolutionary political ideology’ and ‘an infant science ...”

“... Cinema thus became inseparable from ideology – a tendency reflected in Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni’s quasi-manifesto ‘Cinema/Ideology/Criucism’, and inspired in large measure by the work of Althusser. The overarching concept, which was to become the trademark of Cahiers thinking in the ...”