Auteur: François Matheron

‘We do not publish our own drafts, that is, our own mistakes, but we do sometimes publish other people’s, ‘ Louis Althusser once observed of Marx’s early writings. Among his own posthumously released …

There can be little doubt that Louis Althusser was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his influence subsists in many of the concepts currently deployed in …

Louis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling with the intellectual inheritance of Hegel and …

In the late 1970s and 1980s, Louis Althusser endured a period of intense mental instability during which he murdered his wife and was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Spanning this deeply …