Authors: Pierre Macherey, Warren Montag (Editor), Ted Stolze
ISBN-13: 9781859849491, ISBN-10: 1859849490
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Date Published: September 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
The first English translation of Macherey's philosophical work. Best known for hiswork in literary criticism, Pierre Macherey has, over the past two decades, producted a series of original philosophical works. This first collection of his philosophical writings to be published in English discloses the full range of Macherey's interventions, testifying to his signal status as one of France's leading philosophers. In a Materialst Way ranges over Macherey's writings on philosophy and theory, critiques of the work of major figures in contemporary French thought such as Lacan, Foucoult and Canguilhem, and analyses of the work of Spinoza. It reveals to English-speaking audiences what has long been common knowlege in France: that Pierre Macherey is among the most fertile, imaginative and subtle of contemporary philosophers.
Acknowledgments | ||
Notes on Abbreviations and Original Sources | ||
I | Introduction | 1 |
II | In a Materialist Way | 15 |
1 | Soutenance | 17 |
2 | Philosophy as Operation | 28 |
3 | For a Theory of Literary Reproduction | 42 |
III | Philosophy a la francaise | 53 |
4 | The Hegelian Lure: Lacan as Reader of Hegel | 55 |
5 | At the Sources of Histoire de la folie: A Rectification and its Limits | 77 |
6 | Foucault: Ethics and Subjectivity | 96 |
7 | From Canguilhem to Canguilhem by Way of Foucault | 108 |
IV | Spinoza | 117 |
8 | Deleuze in Spinoza | 119 |
9 | Spinoza's Philosophical Actuality (Heidegger, Adorno, Foucault) | 125 |
10 | Spinoza, the End of History, and the Ruse of Reason | 136 |
V | Appendix (1964) | 159 |
11 | Georges Canguilhem's Philosophy of Science: Epistemology and History of Science | 161 |
Bibliography | 189 | |
Index | 195 |