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"Althusser, poised between modernism and postmodernism, meets Machiavelli, poised between the Middle Ages and modernity." -Antonio Negri

About the Author

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.

Reviews

[A] fascinating and original work that provides a new perspective on the equally enigmatic figures of Althusser and Machiavelli.
*The Front Table*

[S]howcases the richly complex thought of Althusser and will be much appreciated by students of Machiavelli.
*Wisconsin Bookwatch*