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With its exquisitely written preface and stimulating contributions by Macherey and other scholars, this collection brings long overdue attention to the neglected and misunderstood elements of Macherey's work, making that work a timely rejoinder to debates on a range of vital issues: reading and discursivity, the relationship between literature and philosophy, the politics of form and formalism, and the legacy of the Althusserian project. At a time when anti-intellectualism holds thought in its sway, in academe as elsewhere, the interventionist import of this volume cannot be overstated. --Rey Chow, author of A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present

Bringing together a stellar cast of writers and scholars, this collection offers a most eloquent testimony to the lasting enigma of Pierre Macherey's brilliant if also frequently misread first book, A Theory of Literary Production. Audrey Wasser and Warren Montag prove the continued relevance of Macherey's proposal in the context of French Marxism and its creative dialogue with psychoanalysis, the history of the sciences, and the critique of ideology. --Bruno Bosteels, author of The Actuality of Communism With its exquisitely written preface and stimulating contributions by Macherey and other scholars, this collection brings long-overdue attention to the neglected and misunderstood elements of Macherey's work, making that work a timely rejoinder to debates on a range of vital issues: reading and discursivity, the relationship between literature and philosophy, the politics of form and formalism, and the legacy of the Althusserian project. At a time when anti-intellectualism holds thought in its sway, in academe as elsewhere, the interventionist import of this volume cannot be overstated. --Rey Chow, author of A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present

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Warren Montag is the Louis M. Brown Family Professor of Literature at Occidental College. His most recent books include Althusser and His Contemporaries and The Other Adam Smith. Montag is the editor of Décalages and the translator of Étienne Balibar’s Identity and Difference: John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness. Audrey Wasser is an associate professor of French at Miami University, Ohio. She is the author of The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form.

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