Louis Althusser (1918–1990)

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1. Louis Althusser

   Author of For Marx, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx (Radical Thinkers)

2. Karl Marx

   Author of Capital: A Critique of Political Ecomony, Vol. 1: The Process of Production of Capital, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

3. Michel Foucault

   Author of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977

4. Jacques Derrida

   Author of Of Grammatology, Margins of Philosophy, Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, The Work of Mourning & the New International

5. Fredric Jameson

   Author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Prison-House of Language, Late Marxism: Adorno or The Persistence of the Dialectic

6. Theodor W. Adorno

   Author of Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, Aesthetics and Politics, History and Freedom: Lectures 1964-1965

7. Alain Badiou

   Author of Metapolitics, Polemics, Manifesto for Philosophy: Followed by Two Essays: "the (Re)Turn of Philosophy Itself" and "Definition of Philosophy" (Su

8. Gilles Deleuze

   Author of Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Nietzsche and Philosophy, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza

9. Herbert Marcuse

   Author of One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Eros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, Reason and Revolution : Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory

10. Georg Lukács

    Author of History and Class Consciousness, Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought

11. Giorgio Agamben

    Author of Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, State of Exception, The Coming Community

12. Antonio Negri

    Author of Marx Beyond Marx: Lessons on the Grundrisse, The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza's Metaphysics and Politics, Negri on Negri

13. Etienne Balibar

    Author of The Philosophy of Marx, Spinoza and Politics (Radical Thinkers), Masses, Classes, Ideas: Studies on Politics and Philosophy Before and After Marx

14. Walter Benjamin

    Author of Illuminations, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 4, 1938-1940

15. Slavoj Žižek

    Author of The Sublime Object of Ideology, The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology, For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor

16. Perry Anderson

    Author of Considerations on Western Marxism, Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas, In the Tracks of Historical Materialism: Wellek Library Lectures

17. Jacques Lacan

    Author of Ecrits: A Selection, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment

18. Max Horkheimer

    Author of Dialectic of Enlightenment, Critical Theory (Critical Theory Ppr)

19. Carl Schmitt

    Author of The Concept of the Political, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

20. Raymond Williams

    Author of Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Marxism and Literature, Culture and Materialism