Pierre Macherey

Pierre Macherey (born 1938) is a French Marxist literary critic. 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.

Works

Only a partial selection of Macherey's work has been translated into English.

* "Reading Capital", (1965 - with Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar and Jacques Rancière)
* "Hegel ou Spinoza", Maspéro, 1977 (reed. La Découverte, 2004)
* "A Theory of Literary Production" (1978): ISBN 0-415-04613-0
* "Hegel et la société", PUF, (1984)
* "The Object of Literature" (1995): ISBN 0-521-47678-X
* "In a Materialist Way: Selected Essays" (1998): ISBN 1-85984-949-0

External links

* [http://stl.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/sitespersonnels/macherey/accueilmacherey.html Pierre Macherey's personal site]
* [http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2851 Macherey from the Literary Encyclopedia]
* [http://www.generation-online.org/p/pmacherey.htm Notes from generation-online.org]