Description
Book SynopsisRevisits A Theory of Literary Production (1966) to show how Pierre Machereyâs remarkable - and still provocative - early work can contribute to contemporary discussions about the act of reading and the politics of formal analysis.
Trade Review“With its exquisitely written preface and stimulating contributions by Macherey and other scholars, this collection brings long-overdue attention to the neglected and misunderstood elements of Macherey’s work, making that work a timely rejoinder to debates on a range of vital issues: reading and discursivity, the relationship between literature and philosophy, the politics of form and formalism, and the legacy of the Althusserian project. At a time when anti-intellectualism holds thought in its sway, in academe as elsewhere, the interventionist import of this volume cannot be overstated.” —Rey Chow, author of
A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present“Bringing together a stellar cast of writers and scholars, this collection offers a most eloquent testimony to the lasting enigma of Pierre Macherey’s brilliant if also frequently misread first book,
A Theory of Literary Production. Audrey Wasser and Warren Montag prove the continued relevance of Macherey’s proposal in the context of French Marxism and its creative dialogue with psychoanalysis, the history of the sciences, and the critique of ideology.” —Bruno Bosteels, author of
The Actuality of CommunismTable of Contents
- Preface - Warren Montag and Audrey Wasser
- Postface to Pour une thÉorie de la production littÉraire (2014) - Pierre Macherey
- 1. Why Read, Macherey? - Audrey Wasser
- 2. Spoken and Unspoken - Ellen Rooney
- 3. Baudelaire’s Shadow: On Poetic Determination - Nathan Brown
- 4. What is Materialist Analysis? Pierre Macherey’s Spinozist Epistemology - Nick Nesbitt
- 5. Blackness: N’est Pas? - David Marriott
- 6. What Do We Mean When We Speak of the Surface of a Text? - Warren Montag
- 7. Reading Althusser - Pierre Macherey
- 8. Between Literature and Philosophy: An Interview with Pierre Macherey - Pierre Macherey and Joseph Serrano
- Bibliography of Works by Pierre Macherey
- Notes
- Index
