Political Science, History & Theory

Machiavelli and Us

Name: Machiavelli and Us
Author: Louis Althusser
ISBN: 9781859847114

by Louis Althusser, Francois Matheron (Editor), Gregory Elliott

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Synopsis

“Althusser, poised between modernism and postmodernism, meets Machiavelli, poised between the Middle Ages and modernity.”—Antonio Negri.

About the Author, Louis Althusser

Louis Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in France in 1990. He taught philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party. His books include For Marx; Reading Capital (with Etienne Balibar); Essays in Ideology; Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx; Machiavelli and Us; and The Spectre of Hegel.