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Title: A Foundational Text, but not an unproblematic one.
Review: While not particularly an esay read, this collection of essays is crucial for understanding the transitions from a Marxian-structuralism to post-Marxism and post-Structuralism. Foucault's development out of his teacher's thought can also be traced from this by careful reading, but it it is not without controversy even amongst both traditional Marxists and Maoist figures. The move away from the economic and to the state as a the locus on power can be problematic. Furthermore, it is not entirely clear if Althusser things the ideology and the Ideological State Apparatus is truly presenting itself as transhistorical or is somehow transhistorical. Ranceire's critiques of Althusser tendency to a total answer are also pretty apparent in the book.
