Pierre Macherey (b. 1938) is a French Marxist literary critic. A former student of Louis Althusser and collaborator on the influential volume Reading "Capital", Macherey is a central figure in the development of French post-structuralism and Marxism. His work is influential in literary theory and Continental philosophy in Europe (including Britain) though it is generally little read in the United States.

Works

Only a partial selection of Macherey's work has been translated into English.

• Reading Capital, (1965 - with Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar and Jacques Rancière)
• Hegel ou Spinoza, Maspéro, 1977 (reed. La Découverte, 2004)
• A Theory of Literary Production (1978): ISBN 0415046130
• Hegel et la société, PUF, (1984)
• The Object of Literature (1995): ISBN 052147678X
• In a Materialist Way: Selected Essays (1998): ISBN 1859849490

External links

• Pierre Macherey's personal site
• Macherey from the Literary Encyclopedia
• Notes from generation-online.org

1938 births | Living people | Literary critics | Marxist theorists | Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure

Pierre Macherey | Pierre Macherey