Pierre Macherey
Pierre Macherey | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 February 1938 |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
Academic advisor | Louis Althusser |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Continental philosophy Structural Marxism Marxist literary criticism | |
| Institutions | Paris I Lille III |
Main interests | History of philosophy Literary theory |
Notable ideas | The literary work as ideological production |
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alma_mater which should be merged into education.Pierre Macherey (French: [maʃrɛ]; born 17 February 1938) is a French Marxist philosopher and literary critic at the University of Lille Nord de France. 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.