Althusser's Lesson

Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-GBX-NONEX-NONE/* Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name: "Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow: yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-parent: "";mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0cm;mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt;mso-pagination: widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman,""serif";}Thetensions between politics and theory that prompted Ranciere to write "Althusser's Lesson" still continue totraverse contemporary radical thought. Originally an intervention into thepost-1968 theoretico-political conjuncture, the long-awaited Englishpublication of this legendary text, elegantly translated and annotated byEmiliano Battista, promises to introduce a new generation of theorists andmilitants to the productive contradictions that lie at the foundations not onlyof Althusser's and Ranciere's work, but of the continually renovated andrenewed Marxist tradition itself.Peter D. Tho