This thoroughgoing reevaluation of Louis Althusser's philosophical project shows that the theorist was intensely engaged with the work of his contemporaries, particularly Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, and Lacan.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Why Read Althusser Today? 1
Part I. Structure
1. The Theoretical Conjuncture: Structure, Structurality, Structuralism 15
2. Toward a Prehistory of Structuralism: From Montesquieu to Dilthey 23
3. Settling Accounts with Phenomenology: Husserl and His Critics 36
4. Lévi-Strauss: Ancestors and Descendants, Causes and Effects 53
5. Between Spinozists: The Function of Structure in Althusser, Macherey, and Deleuze 73
Part II. Subject
6. Marxism and Humanism 103
7. Althusser and Lacan: Toward of Genealogy of the Concept of Interpellation 118
8. Althusser and Foucault: Apparatuses of Subjection 141
Part III. Origin/End
9. The Late Althusser: Materialism of the Encounter or Philosophy of Nothingness? 173
10. The End of Destiny: Althusser before Althusser 190
Afterword 209
Notes 213
Bibliography 231
Index 243