title: Althusser: The Detour of Theory
author:  Gregory Elliott 
description: 359p hardback with black illustrated dustjacket, excellent copy, fresh and clean and tight, very good indeed
zlib_text: The Althusserian Legacy
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  Edited by 
  E. A N N ^ A P L A N  
  and
  M ICH A EL SPRINKER
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  V E R S O  
  London · New York
  
  First published by Verso 1993 
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  Contents
  Introduction
  Michael Sprinker
  The Non-Contem poraneity o f Althusser 
  Etienne Balibar
  A lthusser’s Solitude 
  Gregory Elliott
  W hat Is Living and W hat Is D ead in the Philosophy of Althusser 
  Alex Callinicos
  Spinoza and Althusser A gainst Hermeneutics: Interpretation or
  Intervention?
  Warre