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French academic
Pierre Macherey
(
French:
[ma??r?]
; born 17 February 1938,
Belfort
) is a French
Marxist
philosopher
and
literary critic
at the
University of 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.
Scholarly work
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Macherey is known for his contribution to
Reading Capital
and his influential work in Marxist literary criticism. Since October 2000, he has been engaged in a group project entitled "La
Philosophie au sens large
" (Philosophy in the grand sense), which has been hosted on the academic web platform Hypotheses.org since 2009. The project collects essays, presentations, and longer form studies that highlight the interrelation between philosophy and the literary, political, artistic, and social scientific thought that conditions it. The project is described as an attempt to reformulate the problematic of practice.
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In this context, Macherey has described philosophy in the 'grand sense' as " a conjunctural practice, which has no other means of surpassing the limits imposed by the conjunctures with which it is confronted other than to reflect on them and to elucidate their conditions in such a way as to eventually be able to intervene with regard to them and, therefore, to contribute to the transformation or evolution of these conjunctures."
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Works
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Only a partial selection of Macherey's work has been translated into English.
- "The Productive Subject"
, Viewpoint Magazine 5 (October 2015)
- Reading Capital
, (1965 - with
Louis Althusser
,
Etienne Balibar
and
Jacques Ranciere
)
- Hegel ou Spinoza
, Maspero, 1977 (reed. La Decouverte, 2004)
- A Theory of Literary Production
(1978):
ISBN
0-415-04613-0
- Hegel et la societe
,
PUF
, (1984)
- The Object of Literature
(1995):
ISBN
0-521-47678-X
- In a Materialist Way: Selected Essays
(1998 ed.
Warren Montag
):
ISBN
1-85984-949-0
- "Hegel or Spinoza", University of Minnesota Press (Jan 2012). Translator, Susan M. Ruddick
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