The Althusserian Legacy
Michael Sprinkerwas Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. HisImaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the History of Historical MaterialismandHistory and Ideology in Proustare also published by Verso. Together with Mike Davis, he founded Verso’s Haymarket Series and guided it until his death in 1999.Étienne Balibaris a French Marxist philosopher and the most celebrated student of Louis Althusser. He is also one of the leading exponents of French Marxist philosophy and the author ofSpinoza and Politics,The Philosophy of Marxand co-author ofRace, Nation and ClassandReading Capital.Michèle Barrettis Professor of Modern Literary and Cultural Theory in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author, among other works, ofWomen’s Oppression Today,The Anti-Social Family, andPolitics of Diversity(co-authored with Roberta Hamilton).Jacques Derridawas Director of Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. English translations of his work includeGiven Time,Memories of the Blind,Specters of Marx, The Politics of Friendship,andThe Gift of Death.Gregory Elliottis a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy and author ofAlthusser: The Detour of TheoryandLabourism and the English Genius: The Strange Decay of Labour England?.Warren Montagis Associate Professor of English at Occidental College, Los Angeles. He is the author ofBodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and his Contemporariesand theUnthinkable Swift.