“Althusser, poised between modernism and postmodernism, meets Machiavelli, poised between the Middle Ages and modernity.”—Antonio Negri.“We do not publish our own drafts, that is, our own mistakes, but we do sometimes publish ...

Collected here are Althusser's most significant philosophical writings from 1965 to 1978.Intended to contribute, in his own words, to a "left-wing critique of Stalinism that would help put some substance back into the revolutionary pr...

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 Catholicism. The Spectre of Hegel collect...